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beautiful tongue like a bell " no more. Jason and 

 Jessie were two more of the Justices, from Lovely by 

 Mostyn's Lazarus, and Jessamine was the result of 

 her cross with Waterloo, Both Waterloo and Wel- 

 lington were by Assheton Smith's Collier from 

 Gladsome, whom Philip Payne entered in 181 1. She 

 went back through Royster and Vernon's Ranter 

 to the great Yarborough Ranter, and hence it was 

 no wonder that Mr. Codrington always vowed that 

 his CoUiers had the rarest blood in England in their 

 veins. 



When Will Longr after whipping in ,,,.„ , 



- . , ^ ^^ 11- "il) Long. 



for eighteen seasons, commenced his 

 huntsman's career in 1826, he went to Brocklesby on 

 his first voyage of kennel discovery, but although 

 he found them rather under the size he had expected, 

 he sent Dalliance down to their Fairplay. Hence 

 sprang Freeman, who, after doing the kennel some 

 good service, went in the spring of 1835, with twenty- 

 five couple of entered hounds, to the Heythrop. 

 Four hundred and fifty guineas was their price, and 

 Lord Southampton paid a thousand for the forty- 

 five couple, twenty of them unentered, which he had 

 from Badminton in 1850. Soon after he began. Will 

 bred his lordship's celebrated Hazard, and took him 

 to Quorn, where Dick Burton entered him in 1828. 

 He was by Harbinger, of Lord Lonsdale's blood, 

 from Purity by Nectar, and was one of the two 

 or three hounds Lord Southampton retained when 

 he left Ouorn ; as, although his lordship did not 

 take to the Grafton country for a time, he bred a 

 litter or two of puppies every year, and gave them 

 away. 



The Duke of Grafton and Mr. Drake Hector 

 sent bitches to Hazard, and his principal 

 son was Drake's Hector, a name that huntsmen will 

 never cease to venerate, as he did good without ex- 

 ception to every kennel that used him. He was a 



