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and although Ben Foote was at times so incredulous 

 that he would try down wind and side wind as well, 

 he found it was no use wasting time when Hannibal 

 had said No. He was lent to the Warwickshire for a 

 week, and the very first time he was taken out, he 

 went and found his fox instantly, and raced into him 

 over a country which was equally strange to him. 

 Two Craven men came to Foote at the kennels a few 

 days after to tell him of the odd coincidence, and the 

 likeness of the hound they had seen to their own 

 Hannibal, and as he had then come back and was 

 specially drawn for them, they were perfectly bewil- 

 dered to think how two hounds with precisely the 

 same marks, should be blessed with precisely the same 

 bump of " locality." 



The Hannibal of the Cheshire was the Cheshire 

 idol of Joe's heart, but he had to be de- Hannibal. 

 stroyed in the madness along with Envoy and Bravery. 

 The latter was by Meynell Ingram's Bertram from 

 Racket of their capital Nathan blood and quite a little 

 handmaid to a huntsman. She would hunt her fox 

 like a beagle, and when they were breaking him up, 

 she would give just one snack, and then sit up and be 

 the first to move again. Hannibal was by Cheshire 

 General, and with immense bone and depth of chest, 

 and measured good nine inches round the arm ; and 

 he may well hang up with Bravery, and the renowned 

 bay Pcvorett, in the entrance hall at Wolstanton. 

 The Heythrop Hannibal did little towards repairing 

 liis loss in after-years, but Lord Hawke's Conqueror, 

 the Grov^e Watchman, Heythrop Agent, Shropshire 

 i^luecap, and Rutland General stopped up such gaps 

 as even the grand entry of twenty-five couple of 

 puppies, out of the eighty which came in that spring 

 from quarters, could not quite fill. The Dapper sort 

 were all whites, and not such hard runners as the 

 Craftsman, who were principally white as well, but 

 too quick and jealous for a less flying country. 



