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hounds when trading to find in the cold and 

 chilHng dreary fog of a severe winter's morn- 

 ing, tlian the alternate contrasts in the chase, 

 arising from those checks in heading, tiini^ 

 itig, doubling, and squatting,'" that constitute 

 first a burst to promote perspiration, then' a 

 '' fauW to suppress it. 



This is so very opposite to the violent and 

 continued exertions of a chase with either 

 STAG or FOX, in the present improved 

 breed and fleetness of hounds, that I only 

 mean to convey an idea of the probable 

 hazard of having a horse kept in too high a 

 style for a chase so subject to fluctuation in 

 the different degrees of heat and cold, that a 

 horse in perfect condition must have great 

 good fortune, or an excellent constitution, 

 not to feel the ill effects of long attendance 

 upon HARRIERS, at least in those coun- 

 tries where the scarcity of game admits 

 of much lost time between killing and Jind- 

 ing. For my own part, however repug- 

 nant the opinion may prove to one class 

 of sportsmen, I feel myself justified in de- 

 claring, no consideration whatever should 

 iutluence me to dance attendance upon har- 



