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Dogs and All about Them
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Robert Leighton
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With
so
much
prominence
given
to
the
Foxhound
in
the
comparatively
short
period
of
forty
or
fifty
years,
it
is
no
wonder
that
individual
hounds
became
very
celebrated
in
almost
every
part
of
the
country.
Mr.
Pelham's
Rockwood
Tickler
and
Bumper
were
names
well
known
in
Yorkshire,
and
Lord
Ludlow's
Powerful
and
Growler
were
talked
of
both
in
Lincolnshire
and
Warwickshire.
From
the
first,
indeed,
it
appeared
that
certain
hounds
were
very
much
better
than
others,
and
old
huntsmen
have
generally
declared
for
one
which
was
in
the
whole
length
of
their
careers
(sometimes
extending
to
fifty
years)
immeasurably
superior
to
all
others
they
had
hunted.
Harry
Ayris,
who
was
for
just
half
a
century
with
Lord
FitzHardinge,
declared
to
the
day
of
his
death
that
nothing
had
equalled
Cromwell;
Osbaldeston
said
the
same
of
Furrier,
and
Frank
Gillard
never
falters
from
the
opinion
that
Weathergage
was
quite
by
himself
as
the
best
hound
he
ever
hunted.
The
Foxhound
Kennel
Stud
Book
abounds
in
the
strongest
proofs
that
hereditary
merit
in
their
work
has
been
transmitted
from
these
wonderful
hounds,
and
they
really
make
the
history
of
the
Foxhound.
There
have
been
many
great
hounds;
but
there
must
be
the
greatest
of
the
great,
and
the
following
twelve
hounds
are
probably
the
best
England
has
ever
seen:--Mr.
Corbet's
Trojan
(1780),
Lord
Middleton's
Vanguard
(1815),
Mr.
Osbaldeston's
Furrier
(1820),
Lord
Henry
Bentinck's
Contest
(1848),
Lord
FitzHardinge's
Cromwell
(1855),
Mr.
Drake's
Duster
(1844),
Sir
Richard
Sutton's
Dryden
(1849),
the
Duke
of
Rutland's
Senator
(1862),
Duke
of
Rutland's
Weathergage
(1874),
the
Earl
of
Coventry's
Rambler
(1874),
Mr.
E.
P.
Rawnsley's
Freeman
(1884),
and
the
Grafton
Woodman
(1892).
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