286 Silk and Scarlet, 



Sunderland bitch, and Toilet and Trinket from Relish 

 were capital daughters of Trumpeter's, and so was 

 Tawdry, who was found working neck and shoulders 

 up to her fox in a rabbit-hole, the very first day she 

 was taken out. 



In 1852 a few were entered by Badsworth Waterloo, 

 by old Whynot, by Ducie's Vagabond. In his under- 

 graduate days Mr. Henley Greaves took a great fancy 

 to Vagabond, and got him Irom Joe Thompson, and 

 drove him in his gig from Oxford to Badsworth, but 

 he proved to be quite worn out. The Whynots and 

 the Lubins were always great lines of blood at Bads- 

 worth ; the former were black-and-tan, and had more 

 dash, while the Lubins were sound good badger pyes, 

 and claimed kindred with the Duke of Buccleugh's 

 Lexicon. The half-faced Fleecer was of this year ; he 

 was a rare roadster, and so cheerful and persevering in 

 his cast, that Clark and half Berkshire generally looked 

 to him in difficulties. He was by Fitzhardinge Furrier, 

 and Harry Ayris though him so like the old dog in 

 work and shape, that being out of Furriers, he bor- 

 rowed and bred from him. Statesman, of this year, a 

 very capital hound in chase, also went to Berkeley 

 Castle, but he never got any puppies. The Fitzhar- 

 dinge Hector was lent them in turn, with especial in- 

 junctions from his lordship that he was never to go out 

 in large fields, and in 1853 they entered three-and- 

 twenty by him. 



In 1854, among the first litter of Sunderland 

 puppies, came Spangle, who is still doing capital 

 work at Badminton. Boxer and Bobadil, the first 

 The Hercules of the Bosphoruscs, Were equal for the 

 Litter. Cup in 1856; and in 1857, the great 

 Hercules and Spangle litter carried all before them. 

 There were originally nine, but two died of distemper 

 after they had come in from walk. The symmetry 

 and colour were caught principally from the dam, and 

 the face from Hercules, of whom Hesperus was the 



