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very image. Honesty was considered better than 

 Harlequin in their classes, and the latter was run hard 

 by Baronet, by Bosphorus ; but the judicial decision 

 of the learned Barons, Will Long (who very nearly 

 took a lane flying, the next season on England's 

 Glory), and Joe Maiden, was confirmed on a division 

 of huntsmen, &c., by eleven to eight. So anxious was 

 Mr. Richard Sutton to have Hercules at the Quorn 

 sale, that when he arrived just a few minutes too late, 

 he offered Clark the 210 guineas he had paid for the 

 lot, to get the son of Albion alone. Not a relic of his 

 mealy blue skin and nearly hairless head is preserved ; 

 and when we saw him the week before his death, he 

 seemed to have aged very fast since Quorn, but ran 

 in the first flight the same as ever. They worked him 

 for the first time with eighteen couple, and had a 

 capital trial three miles from Appleton Common up 

 to New Bridge, and three back to ground at Tubney 

 Wood. He and Statesman led all the way ; Dexter, 

 another of the Quorn lot, did well ; but he was always 

 greater in the woodlands than in the open, and Trojan, 

 by Trueman, fat as he was, showed himself a capital 

 line hunter. The Hercules blood has prospered in 

 Mr. Montague's hands ; and George Whitemore is 

 especially proud of some bitches by him. The Duke 

 of Beaufort has also two couple to enter ; but he died 

 so early in his last season, that there were only four or 

 five litters by him. 



The blood bravely held its own again The Last Tub- 

 when it came before the Old Berkshire ney Hound 

 Bench next year in the Bitch Puppy Cup; ^^°^' 

 but still, to quote the impressive obiter dicttnn of Will 

 Long, " Turn me out Han^iet and Sophy, and I don't 

 care which I catch hold of ;'' and Joe Maiden was 

 equally troubled in his mind. Three brother-scarlets 

 came in to help, and there we all stood in the yard, 

 that day, Mr. Morrell in the centre, pencil in hand, to 

 take the votes, while a master of hounds, the late 



