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when the fox went to ground, and determined to have 

 a slice of him. The nick between him and the Rocket 

 tlood was very great, and Theodore, from Termagant, 

 was so bred. The Bluecap blood in the Heythrop 

 came from Mr. Drake's, and they were generally black 

 tan hounds ; lengthy, but rather heavy-shouldered. 

 The twenty-five inch Drake Boaster did not disap- 

 point him, and got all his bitches twenty-two inches, 

 and with very beautiful forehands, while those by 

 Vampyre by Beaufort Voucher, on the contrary, were 

 rather heavy-shouldered, and very apt to knock them- 

 selves to pieces over walls ; and Cheshire Chaser, 

 Avhose brother Champion did the North Staffordshire 

 some service, brought the Badsworth Conqueror and 

 Foijambe Piper blood into the kennel. 



The twenty -five inch Roman-headed ,.. .1, 



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JNathan was one ot Jem s particulars, and 

 although he was rather long on the leg, and got his 

 stock so, he was as low-scented as a harrier, and could 

 often carry it over fallows or along a road, when 

 nothing else could touch it, and put the pack to rights 

 pretty often among the cubs in Wychwood Forest. 

 He worked him five seasons, and then he went to Mr. 

 Hillyer's, leaving eight or ten couple of his blood 

 Ijehind. His science as a road-hunter was such, that 

 if he had been in the South Warwickshire, Jem would 

 have no occasion to renew his annual offer to their 

 huntsmen, beginning with John Jones, to turf over 

 that piece of the turnpike road which separates the 

 .two hunts near Roleright Hills. Nathan's sons, 

 Nobleman and Ferryman, are great at a road now, 

 and on the last day of the 1857-58 season, the former 

 carried it down one, for a mile-and-a-half The others 

 had faith, but would not speak to it ; and Jem trotted 

 behind, strong in the belief that ** he never told a lie 

 yety Still he wavered in his allegiance, when a woman, 

 with a sickly child, sitting under the side of a hedge, 

 vowed that nothing had passed her way, but Noble- 



