THE FOXHOUND. 



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Fig. 8.— FOXHOUND, BLUECAP. 



THE FOXHOUND. 



The modern foxliouncl is one of tlie most wonderful animals in 

 treation, which is probably owing to the great pains that have 

 been bestowed upon him for the last two or three centuries. Nu- 

 merous instances have occurred where forty or fifty thousand dol- 

 lars a year have been spent for a long time together upon a fox- 

 hunting establishment, and therefore, when this outlay has been 

 united with the great judgment which has been displayed in the 

 most celebrated kennels of the present century, it can scarcely 

 occasion surprise that the combination has resulted in the most 



