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hunted the South Wilts country, was composed 

 ahnost entirely of hounds from this kennel; as 

 was that also belonging to Mr. Nicol, who at that 

 time hunted the New Forest. I find moreover, 

 on referring to Mr. Ward's stud book, that in the 

 year 1806 he entered two litters of young hounds 

 that season, one of six, the other of four, by the 

 Duke of Beaufort's Pontiff ; at the same time, he 

 entered also two litters by Lord Yarborough's 

 Dealer. 



Mr. Ward had also a faijious hound, named 

 Roderick, by the Duke of Beaufort's Ragland, 

 entered in 1810, from which were lineally de- 

 scended several of the hounds I purchased of him 

 in the year 1826. As a breeder of fox-hounds, 

 Mr. Ward had obtained the greatest celebrity in 

 his time, and in the year 1766 he had three cou- 

 ples of hounds, four bitches and two dogs, by 

 Mr. Barry's Bluecap ; the four former proving all 

 brood bitches, from which the best blood in his 

 kennel was derived; so that his pack had every 

 reason to be fast, being bred chiefly from the most 

 speedy fox-hound of the last century, and I be- 

 lieve not one of the present will surpass him in 

 pace. 



Some of the most distinguished packs of that 

 period of which Mr. Ward took notice (besides 



