106 THE HOUND. 



On the nineteenth of February,, 1783, a Fox \vas 

 unkennelled near Boroughbridge in Yorkshire, at 

 twenty-seven minutes past nine, and, except half 

 an hour taken up in bolting him from a Rabbet- 

 burrow, the Hounds had a continued run till 

 fourteen minutes past five in the evening. During 

 this space, of nearly eight hours hard running, se- 

 veral horses died in the field, and many others were 

 so much injured, as never afterwards to be per- 

 fectly recovered*. 



In a match, a single Fox-hound has been known 

 to run four miles in seven minutes and half a 

 second. 



That Hounds are not enemies, by nature, to the 

 animals they are employed to hunt, seems evident, 

 from a circumstance which occurred at the Duke of 

 Richmond's, at Goodwood. In the year 1797, five 

 young Foxes were suckled, and reared, by two 

 Fox-hound bitches f. 



A laughable instance of the power that the 

 huntsman has over his Hounds, is said to have oc- 

 curred not many years ago. A gentleman, who 

 was somewhat too distinguished for scolding his 

 huntsman in the field, was one day so much in- 

 censed at a reply which the fellow made, that he 

 turned him off on the spot. The next day that the 

 gentleman went out, the voice of the huntsman 



* Daniel's Rural Sports, i. p. 157. f Ibid. i. p. 92. 



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