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departure for the sea-side being formally announced in the 

 ' Gazette.' Brighton failed, and Davis appears to have 

 thought, like Sharpe, that there was nothing to be done, and 

 that five or six couple at the least must always be down 

 with it. He speaks of the lameness like a man who has lost 

 his sense of proportion and possibility. ' No artificial means,' 

 he writes to Mr. Vyner, the author of ' Notitia Venatica,' 

 ' can make a lame kennel a sound one. You may build it 

 with marble and alabaster and heat it with fire ; all won't 



The old Kennel at Swinlet 



do,' and in 1838 he sends Sir John Halkett the best dog in 

 the kennel, Ganymede. 



' I should be pleased,' he writes, ' to give you one of the 

 best and stoutest I ever bred. He was never known to 

 tire, but he is now afflicted with our cursed torment, kennel 

 lameness, of which he may recover in a fresh place, but 

 never would here.' 



This taking thevA to a fresh place seems to have been 

 the only remedy practised with any success. Bartlett, his 



