DEPARTMENT OF CARPET AND DRAPE COORDINATION |
| DIRECTOR Georgia Brown |
ABOUT
The speed of Merkin, a Foxhound Bitch bred by Colonel Thornton, was still superior; she was challenged to run any Hound of her year five miles over Newmarket, giving 220 yards, for 10,OOO guineas, or to give Madcap 10O yards, and run the same distance for 5,000. Merkin had run a trial of Four miles, and the time she performed it in was seven Minutes and half a second. This Bitch, of whom a portrait is here given, was sold in 1795 for four Hogsheads of Claret, and the seller to have two couple of her Whelps.