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this difficulty of repeating the cross when it nicks, 

 it is ten to one but that some accident happens 

 to either one or the other ; no sort of difficulties 

 should prevent the repetition whilst it is possible, 

 — that is, if the dog and bitch are in any part of 

 the kingdom. 



If a man is determined in breeding to attend to 

 nose and stoutness, he will be sure to succeed in 

 getting a good pack, and one which will go faster, 

 take the season through, than those men who bred 

 for beauty and pace ; and he need not fear of also 

 getting a pack clever in shape too. 



The writer has made many experiments in the 

 breeding of fox-hounds ; and, in consequence of the 

 circumstance that most clever men who have 

 distinguished themselves have been the offspring 

 of clever mothers, the following plan was tried, 

 more than once, in order to discover whether 

 young hounds inherit most good qualities from 

 the dog or from the bitch. Having selected a bitch 

 of three seasons, which had never distinguished 

 herself, either as good in drawing, in the chase, or 

 in cold-hunting, although having no decided fault 

 as to slackness, and put this bitch to some dog 

 which was considered to have most of the good 

 qualities required in a fox-hound, the produce 

 inherited only some of them. 



He also tried the experiment the other way, 



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