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for Jack Morgan says — and I believe many others 

 are of his opinion — that no hounds on earth can 

 beat those with the blood of Senator in them. 

 Turning to the Brocklesby entry we see that 

 Nimrod Long is rather a follower of the same 

 opinion, for he has dipped very freely into the 

 blood. Saffron, a light-faced tan hound, now in 

 his seventh season, is perhaps the most favoured 

 of the Senator race. Though the six -year -old 

 Firebrand, by the same sire, from Frolic, has been 

 much used through the length and breadth of fox- 

 hunting England, and all his progeny are liked. 

 Brusher by Saffron is much like his sire in colour, 

 but with a square and more massive head, his 

 well-knit frame is full of the power that indicates 

 his faculty for driving, and the activity that makes 

 him equal to clearing any fence." 



Hunting in the vicinity of a railway was always 

 a source of great anxiety to Gillard, and he tells 

 the story of the death of Wellington from a pass- 

 ing train on the line by Rauceby. It is very 

 seldom that hounds flash straight over the metals, 

 more often casting about, and on this occasion old 

 Wellington went up the line with his nose on the 

 ground, meeting the train. The engine-driver 

 blew his whistle, and the old hound threw up his 

 head as though he had heard a view halloa. The 

 next second the engine killed him, much to 

 Gillard's distress, " for he was such a good hound 

 in his work, one of the most reliable in the 

 pack ; his voice being husky, you could always 

 distinguish him from the rest. He spoke to fox 



