3IO Silk and Scarlet. 



Bonny Bell Wickstead's Harlequin contributed some 

 very good short-legged hounds to Cheshire, 

 and his Bachelor was the sire of Bonny Bell, one of 

 the very fastest that ever huntsman rode to. Un- 

 fortunately she had to be drafted in her third 

 season, from having got completely spoilt in a run 

 from Mobberley Wood. She came out with the fox, 

 ran close at his brush four miles over the palings, and 

 across Tatton Park in nine minutes, and killed him. 

 This coursing ruined her, as she could never be got 

 to stoop again, and was always dancing about to 

 get a view. Still, the habit rather amused the 

 late Sir Watkin, and he thus wrote to Lord Dela- 

 mere, " Send us all the Bojiny Bells yoiUve got — 

 we've such racitig ; away goes the fox y and then goes 

 Bonny BelC 

 Tom Ranee Sutton's Wildboy and their own Gul- 

 liver, Bangor, Manager, Benedict, Watch- 

 man, Vagrant, Plunder, Champion, and Rockwood 

 have for some seasons past been the principal sires 

 in the Cheshire kennel, where Tom Ranee, who was 

 second horseman for two years to Mr. Gurney, 

 in Norfolk, is now on the threshold of his thirtieth 

 season, as whip. We had never seen Tom till 

 this season, when he requested us to keep a look- 

 out on the towing-path, near Cran Wood, while he 

 watched at the top part of the narrow strip of cover, 

 and as good luck would have it the fox slipped back ; 

 just between us. Then came both to eye and ear, 

 scarcely sixty yards from us, the terrific embodiment 

 of that verse, which has enshrined Tom in all Lanca- 

 shire and Cheshire hearts — 



" Tom Ranee has got a single oie, wurth many another's two ; 

 He held his cap abuv his yed to show he'd had a view ; 

 Tom's voice was loik th' owd raven's when he skroiked out * Tally-ho !* 

 For when the fox had seen Tom's feace, he thoght it toim to go." 



Our gratification was so great, that we made an early 

 application for his photograph ; though, alas ! no sun 



