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at Continental shows. To go into minute particulars of how the 

 Basset has had its origin, or how it has thriven in this country, is 

 not the object of these notes ; though it will be necessary, in 

 dealing with the Couteulx Hounds, to show how the two sub- 

 divisions, into which they must now be classed, have come about. 



In the first place, before proceeding farther, it must be clearly 

 understood what the terms ' Couteulx ' and ' Lane ' mean. When 

 Bassets first began to be imported into England I refer, of course, 

 to our present stock, dating back to 1874 our hounds were 

 imported from the kennels of Comte Couteulx le Cantalan, of 

 Etrepagny. After a lapse of a few years a new kind of Basset 

 made its appearance on the show-bench, exhibited by Mons. Louis 

 Lane, of Francqueville, near Rouen. 



So far, then, the terms ' Couteulx ' and ' Lane ' were applied 

 to hounds emanating from the kennels of these two gentlemen. 

 Fresh importations, however, arriving, and no new name occurring 

 to breeders' minds for these hounds, the term ' Couteulx ' has 

 gradually come to mean any hound (smooth-coated) which is not a 

 Lane, though, in truth, our smooth-coated Bassets might, with far 

 greater advantages, be divided into the 



Couteulx Fino de Paris type. 



Masson ... ... ... ... Termino type. 



Lane ... ... ... ... Ramono type. 



I will, however, only speak of them as two varieties, the Couteulx 

 and Lane; the former with two subdivisions. 



COUTEULX HOUNDS 

 These hounds are exemplified by two types : 



1. Fino de Paris type. 



2. Termino type. 



Before proceeding to give the differences between the two 

 types, it would be, perhaps, as well to understand how this has 

 arisen. The following small pedigree table will show it : 



(Couteulx) Fino de Paris =f= Trouvette (Couteulx). 



(Couteulx) Ravaude II. =f= Fino de Paris =f= Mignarde. 



I 

 Finette =j= Termino (Masson). 



Fanfaro =f= Theo. Guinevre =f= Fino de Paris. 



.1 



Vivien. I ' 1 



Bourbon. Fino V. 



Although Guinevre and Theo were bred from Fino de Paris 

 stock on the dam's side, they were of quite a different type from 



