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sent at parting, to Jem, from Lord Ducie, who had 

 bred from him and Ranter, through thick and thin. 

 He was by Osbaldeston's Rocket, from Beaufort's 

 Dainty by Dorimont, and Rocket himself was by 

 Lord Vernon's Rallywood, from Baroness, both of 

 which were in the five hundred guinea pack " The 

 Squire" bought from his lordship. Having once been 

 ridden over, he was very shy, and would nip right 

 round the horses at a check to the front. In Lord 

 Ducie's hands he was put to Vigorous, Vanquish, 

 Vanity, and all old Lord Middleton's best blood, going 

 back to Mr. Musters ; and he was one of the sixteen 

 couple that came with Jem from the Vale of White 

 Horse, where the blood was still lingering, when Dick 

 Burton left it for Lincolnshire. 



Regent was amongst the two Rocket Deathof Ranter. 

 and Affable litters of one season, and he 

 greatly delighted Jem in his second, by bringing a 

 drowning fox out of the Charwell, near Ransome 

 Park, retriever-fashion, by the nape of the neck. Like 

 all the Rockets, he was amazingly fond of carrying 

 the head. His own was rather a thick one, like old 

 Affable's, and he was eventually drafted for size. Old 

 Rocket, his sire, was a nice hound, of 23 inches, and 

 invariably got them with more bone than himself. 

 He was stifled in his first season, and then ran to head 

 for six more ; and his death was rather a sudden one. 

 He was sitting down in Heythrop Park, during an 

 afternoon stroll with Jem, when he broke a blood 

 vessel, and bled to death on the spot. Oddly enough, 

 his son Ranter died nearly the same way, when he 

 was five years old, in a very hot morning, towards the 

 latter end of cub-hunting. He had run a cub 

 200 yards into the Ox Copse, on Wychwood Forest, 

 and killed it ; when the hounds were counted over he 

 was missing ; and it was not until a fortnight after, 

 that he was found lying dead under an oak tree, 

 about a hundred yards beyond where the cub was 



