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and no pencil, however cunning, can hit him off, as he 

 appeared in that moment of grim extasy. 



Joe Maiden has principally clung to The North 

 his old blood, since he came to the North Staffordshire. 

 Staffordshire, and his crack Absolute is by Cheshire 

 Bangor, who goes back to Gulliver from Actress by 

 Shropshire Ajax, who came to the Wolstanton kennels 

 when Mr. Davenport bought Captain Candler's pack. 

 He was the leading hound in that great run of 

 December 17, 1857, when they supposed they changed 

 foxes, and ran for five hours and a half with scarcely 

 a check, through eighteen parishes. A man leaving 

 work at dusk, saw the fox cross the field dead beat, 

 and Absolute knock him over, and struggle with him 

 in a dry ditch, while the body of the hounds were 

 nearly three minutes behind. About a quarter of an 

 hour after that, Mr. Davenport and his son arrived on 

 foot, as both their horses had been ridden to a stand- 

 still, but some one had cut off their hard-earned brush 

 and bolted with it. Joe was not out that day, but he 

 had been reduced to the same straits himself on the 

 memorable February 16, 1832, in the Cheshire coun- 

 try, when his Filho da Puta horse, Milo, alias " The 

 Pig," stood still, and was left refreshing himself with a 

 moist clod, while Joe, lame as he was, raced for the 

 brush v/ith Mr. Potts of Chester, who had seized on a 

 horse out of a plough team when his own failed. 



Mr. Heron was always very fond of Mr. MeyneU 

 Mr. Meynell's hounds ; and it was Ingram's. 

 through him that Mr. MeyneU Ingram got a good 

 deal of his grandfather's blood (of which Lord Vernon 

 had so much at Sudbury), back to Hoar Cross. When 

 his lordship's hounds were sold at the death of Mr. 

 George Talbot, who had the management, a few 

 couples were retained as a foundation for a small pack, 

 which hunted the Hoar Cross country for three or 

 four seasons ; and this was the pack which Mr. 

 Osbaldeston bought for 500 guineas, when he took it 



