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could hunt quile as low a scent. Waspish bred very 

 few puppies, but among them was a good Melody by 

 their Manager. Herald by Warwickshire Saffron 

 from Hyacinth, who goes back to the Desperate sort, 

 was, along with a daughter of Glider's, the last 

 hounds the Earl ever saw. They were taken up to 

 him in his bed-room in his illness, as he was anxious 

 to have another look at " the old sort," which had 

 in this instance to be drafted for size, and to judge for 

 himself as to the blood of Glider, which his friend Sir 

 Richard Sutton had so ceaselessly pressed upon him. 



Lord Fitzhardinge was especially fond ^j^^ Herods 

 of Chedworth Woods ; and he cared as 

 little about the colour of his hounds, as he did for 

 them being ** sorty." A thousand guineas would not 

 have bought his favourite Herod by Hazard by Cor- 

 bet's Foreman, who was' as bare as a Berkshire pig» 

 and with only a few blue hairs on his sides during the 

 season, and none at all at the end, except under his 

 neck. He dates nearly forty years back, and the sort 

 may be said to have died out in 1833, with the one- 

 eyed Harlequin, who pulled his neck out of joint, 

 breaking up his fox, with three or four couple more,, 

 at Tockington. They bred from him one season, and 

 he left a fine black and tan litter of seven from 

 Radiant, but not so good as the Desperate lot. Hot- 

 spur by Beaufort Regent, from a daughter of another 

 Harlequin, had also a strong strain of Herod blood 

 in him, and a head big enough to have satisfied Lord 

 Hastings, but he got his puppies nice enough in that 

 point. Both he and his son Hector were very gay and 

 wonderful drawers, and there was no hound to whom 

 the Earl trusted more than Hector to get him out of 

 difficulties. His beautiful tongue pleased him as well, 

 and he would sit on his horse for half-an-hour to watch 

 him puzzle out a line of scent. 



Harrogate by Fortitude from Hecuba, Haxrcgafn. 

 a daughter of Herod, was one of the 



