Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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as a Senator at a kill. He was quite a
huntsmans' friend, as to see what Weather-
gage was doing revealed the whole story.
He was not notable for extraordinary good
looks, and might have been included in
the second draft if he had not done some
exceedingly good work as a puppy.
His stock were better-looking than him-
self. Frank Gillard has always said that
the best hound he ever saw in a field was
Weathergage, but the best-looking Fox-
hound in the world he always reckoned to
be Gambler, son of Weathergage.

THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.

In showing how certain individual
hounds excel their comrades, in as great a
degree as is seen in the noble race of man
where generals, statesmen, and poets flutter
as it were, over the common herd, there
are many instances to be cited. The opinion
hound to disentangle a difficulty, that it
was delightful to see him in the field. He
came down in pedigree from the very per-
fect order as he was got by Lord Fitz-
Hardinge's Collier out of Ransom by
Lord Henry Bentinck's Regulus, and
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A CHECK
FROM THE PAINTING BY FRANK P. FREYBURG

of Mr. E. P. Rawnsley, noted as perhaps
the greatest of amateur huntsmen, is that
after hunting hounds for twenty-five years,
he could only recall three that were abso-
lutely perfect ; these were Baronet by
the South Notts Decorate, Bachelor by the
Quorn Warrior, and Freeman by the Bel-
voir Weathergage. He leaned most to the
last-named of the trio, perhaps because
his work was the exact counterpart of his
sire. He could not do wrong. Mr.
Rawnsley said affectionately of him, and
he could always put us right. The Earl
of Coventry had the same belief in Rambler,
who was so perfect, so true, and such a
Collier was by Prompter out of Costly by
Chieftain out of Cynthia by Cromwell.
Like the Belvoir Weathergage, there is
scarcely a kennel in England now that
cannot claim as an ancestor Lord Coventry's
Rambler.
There have been many more great hounds ;
the late Tom Firr would have had some-
thing to say about his Alfred ; Mr. Batt
Miller of the V.W.H. would dispute high
prestige for Harlequin, Lord Bathur

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