'Useful to _me_, you confounded haberdasher!--you hav'n't a hound in your pack that I'd take.

"I think I have a hound that may be useful to you--"' repeated his lordship.
'A Beaufort Justice one, for a guinea!' interrupted Jack, adding, 'He got the name into his head at Oxford, and has been harping upon it ever since.' '"I think I have a hound that may be useful to you--"' resumed his lordship, for the third time.

'"It is Old Merriman, a remarkably stout, true line hunting hound; but who is getting slow for me--" Slow for you, you beggar!' exclaimed his lordship; 'I should have thought nothin' short of a wooden 'un would have been too slow for you.

"He's a six-season hunter, and is by Fitzwilliam's Singwell out of his Darling.

Singwell was by the Rutland Rallywood out of Tavistock's Rhapsody.