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near London they do not lose their flavour by carriage." 

 Does any Londoner nowadays know what the flavour 

 of salmon or any other fish turbot, say really is ? I 

 doubt it. For no fish retains its true flavour after it 

 has been half a dozen hours out of the water, whether 

 salt or fresh. 



But it is when he comes to treat of shooting that 

 Parson Daniel is most at home. Take, for example, the 

 following remarks on spaniels, based on the author's 

 personal experience : 



" Upon no account accept or keep a Spaniel (it is 

 needless to tell a sportsman not to breed from) which 

 has any taint of the hound in his pedigree, although for 

 generations back ; they will be sure to hunt hare in 

 preference to winged game, and the stock may be 

 crossed everlastingly, may attain beauty, strength, 

 symmetry ; yet this latent spark of the harrier will never 

 be extinguished, and they will always show their pre- 

 dilection for hare, whenever they have an opportunity, 

 and this generally happens when their goodness is most 

 required, namely in coverts where the winged game is 

 preserved, and there, for the most part, hares are also 

 in the greatest plenty. A stronger instance could not 

 well be exhibited than in the spaniels of Lord Waltham 

 and Mr. Hoare : a road only parted the seats of those 

 two gentlemen, and their gamekeepers frequently shot 

 in the woods together ; their dogs were equally hand- 

 some, but those of the former would drive hares the 

 day through, and consequently sprung everything that 

 accidentally lay in their course ; whilst those of the 

 latter no more ran hares than they did sheep ; they 



