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then came Ranters and RIngwood in a long black tan 

 line. Reveller and Relish by Rector by Savilles' 

 Rallywood were of Smith's own breeding, and great 

 favourites in 1823. Then there were Druid by Flasher, 

 a son of old Furrier ; the grey Trimmer, with his deep 

 note, v/ho found nineteen out of twenty foxes, with the 

 little bitch Prattler always at his side ; and Jailer by 

 Sir Tatton Sykes' Monarch, a very clever hound 

 indeed. None of them could carry a scent like him 

 through the steam of a hundred horses on the road ; 

 and on one occasion he took it half a mile along the 

 top of a sod wall at Croxby Warren, with the pack 

 on both sides, and his great bushy tan stern waving 

 like a banner, till "the Brocklesby boys" were in 

 raptures. 



Will used to say that he always went End of Osbai- 

 to Sir Tatton's for ribs, and used his deston's Furrier. 

 Furrier by Osbaldeston's Flagrant ; while Fitz- 

 hardinge's Desperate, Foljambe's Prompter b> 

 Hodgson's Valiant, and his Herald by Osbaldeston's 

 Ranter ; and the badger pye Cheshire Benedict by 

 Galliard followed in due course. The Quorn Fur- 

 rier also ended his days with him. Mr. Osbaldeston 

 gave him to Lord Yarborough, when he was nine years 

 old ; but he was scalded in the back the following 

 year (1830), and, as he failed to get any more puppies, 

 he was put away. There is no picture extant of this 

 patriarch of hounds, and no one at Brocklesby re- 

 members where he was buried. Fairmaid was one of 

 the very last litter by him, and her Dashwood by 

 Yarborough Druid did, along with Foljambe's Albion, 

 and Belvoir Guider, and Chacer, enormous good to 

 the Bramham Moor. At one time or another that 

 kennel-book could show, in the term of its time- 

 honoured toast, full " tv/enty-five couple" of Dash- 

 woods, principally bitches. The old dog, who came 

 from the Duke of Buccleuch's to the Bramham Moor, 

 was rather ugly and leggy, short in the ribs, and pig- 



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