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add to the health and comfort of the hounds. The Master 

 has been eminently fortunate, too, in having at the head 

 of affairs such able kennel huntsmen and managers as 

 the late Stephen Dickins and Will Boxall, the present 

 huntsman, who have always been most careful and success- 

 ful in their kennel management. At the present moment 

 Boxall is ably seconded by his whippers-in, A. Shepherd 

 and E. Jones, who have now been some time in the service, 

 and have proved themselves excellent lieutenants. There 

 are several bedrooms above the kennels for feeders and 

 Hunt servants, and the kennels, as a matter of course, are 

 never left unprotected day or night. The cooking-house 

 arrangements appear to be excellent, and the conclusion 

 any one would arrive at after inspecting the Trentham 

 kennels would probably be that it is well to be a North 

 Stafford foxhound, if you want a comfortable, or even 

 a luxurious, life. There are several small lodging-houses 

 and kennels adapted for the accouchement of members of 

 the lady pack, one of which, on the occasion of our last 

 visit, was tenanted by a matron with a newly arrived litter 

 of thirteen. The houses for the Hunt servants are con- 

 veniently placed near the kennels, and most pleasantly 

 situated away from the high-road and amongst the private 

 grounds of the estate. Boxall's house is an ideal hunts- 

 man's residence, with charming, snug rooms, full of 

 interesting photographs and hunting souvenirs. Some 

 of the ])est hounds now in the kennels are Cloister, by 

 Warbler — Constance, W^arbler by Warwickshire Wildboy — 

 Nimble Constance, by Meynell Colonel — Verity ; Hazard, by 

 Alderman — Hopeful, Alderman by Brocklesby Acrobat — 

 Wonderful ; Factor, by Cheshire Trifler — Festive ; Chimer, 

 l)y AVarbler — Constance (see above ; Chimer and Cloister 

 are own brothers) ; Grafton, by Gainsboro' — Frolic ; and 

 Ringwood, by Chimer — Rarity. Ringwood is a young 

 hound full of promise, winner of the first prize for 1902. 

 Hazard and Grafton are three years old, and good workers ; 

 Cloister is five years old, Chimer four, and Factor two years 

 old, and all are capital hounds both for speed and nose. 



