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mto the Vale of Destruction, in a line for Beeston 

 Station, and John Walker called up Cockatoo ; but 

 not sealed till he had given them an hour and five 

 minutes through Harlaston Gorse to Acton, over the 

 finest part of Jheshlre. Render, Clasper, and Charon, 

 the latter from a Comus bitch, were all celebrated 

 Contests in the Burton country ; and so were Clans- 

 man, Carnage, Candid, and Clarion from Destiny by 

 Driver, a nephew of Herald's. Driver was quite one 

 of Dick Burton's adjutants, and the admiration was 

 remarkably mutual. On one occasion they ran a fox 

 for three hours In Harpwell Gorse as If they would 

 tear it down, and not one hound outside for the last 

 twenty minutes. Driver was the only one missing 

 after they had killed ; and in a few minutes he ap- 

 peared, with the brush in his mouth, and solemnly 

 laid it at Dick's feet, before the assembled field. 

 Strange to say, he did the same thing over again in 

 the course of the next season's cub-hunting. Con- 

 test is in Earl Wemyss's kennel, and his six couple 

 of one-season hounds — more especially Honesty, He- 

 roine, Harbinger, and Highflyer, inheriting as they 

 do his muscular back and loins — are in high favour 

 with his lordship and Will Channing. 



The match between Earl Fltzwllllam's Eari Fitz- 

 and Mr. Meynell's hounds took place in wiiiiams. 

 the days of Will Deane, who had come with the 

 hounds from Lord Crewe and Foley's, in Worcester- 

 shire. Mr. Meynell brought his ten couple from 

 Kimbolton Castle to the tryst at Hunt's Closes, and 

 the hounds were stopped at the end of forty minutes, 

 when, as Milton tradition has it. Darter and the 

 original Druid, both of them tans, were a good first 

 and second. The Druids were generally dark tans, 

 and Dreadnought was a great hound of the sort. 

 When Tom Sebright succeeded John Clark in 1821, 

 there were a great many blue pied, who ran back to 

 old Glancer. The two sorts united well in Jason, from 



