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hounds naturally refused to go to a strange cry ; but 

 their master's idea was, that owing to their smaller 

 size, they were unable to jump over the long green 

 briars, -which were too close to admit of creeping, and 

 his troubled spirit knew no rest till the bitch standard 

 had been, raised to as much over twenty-three as he 

 could get it, and his dogs to as near twenty-five as 

 possible. 



It was thus that the Manager dynasty came in ; 

 but the neighbouring hunts did not bow to it, and 

 Lord Althorp stuck to the twenty-three and a-half 

 Champion by Meynell's Ranter and Pontiff, and had 

 some fifteen Htters of whelps by them one season. 

 The short-legged Pontiff was then the pick of the pack, 

 albeit he was a trifle throaty, and hardly able to go 

 the pace, and his picture still hangs in the ante-room 

 at Tedworth, along with the little half-faced Dairy- 

 maid. Tigress also nestled very near Mr. Smith's 

 heart, although she was- a confirmed hare-hunter, and 

 scarcely ever came home with them. His love of 

 large hounds did not desert him in Lincolnshire, and 

 the only complaint he had against the county was, 

 that the banks in the coverts rather let his hounds' 

 toes down early, by the stress it put on to them in 

 jumping. However near it might be to cub-hunting, 

 he would allow no " singing" in his kennels, which 

 were situated just below the Middle Station, in Lin- 

 coln, where Mr. Chaplin's hunters now stand. 

 ■Mr. Smith's Ted- When he passed on from his beloved 

 worth Pack. Langton and Wragby Woods to Penton 

 in Hampshire, where he lived till his father's death, we 

 find him again breeding very extensively for size from 

 two brothers Rifleman and Reginald by Sir Richard 

 Sutton's Trimmer. With George Carter came sixty 

 couple of the Grafton hounds, of which no less than 

 thirty were of the good old Goodwood badger pye. 

 Carter had used Mr. Osbaldeston's Ferryman, Ranter, 

 and Royalist by Ranter, as well as Mr. Drake's Sultan, 



