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would indeed find the hares but follow no farther than 

 they saw them : they were always in their places, 

 twisting around every stub with that agility, and 

 possessed such fineness of nose that neither woodcock 

 nor pheasant could escape their search. Lord Waltham's 

 Spaniel Bitches had originally a cross of the beagle, and 

 although this was tried to be remedied by resorting to 

 the best dogs, the tendency to hare could never be 

 subdued." 



The Compiler's spaniels were so very excellent that 

 he was once desired to fix his own price upon six brace 

 and a half, after being offered one hundred and fifty 

 guineas for them. He had, many years previous, pur- 

 chased at various times, at least four score spaniels, all 

 with the best of characters, but which, with the exception 

 of four brace, were regularly consigned to the halter 

 for incorrigible hare-hunting ; nor would he ever have 

 got them to his wish, but by procuring Mr. Hoare's 

 after that gentleman's decease : those with an increased 

 attention to obtain any cross that could improve them, 

 had rendered them superior to most. Amidst a great 

 abundance of hares in all the manors he preserved, he 

 had at one time in his possession six brace of spaniels 

 that would not individually or collectively run a hare 

 thirty yards ; it will readily be supposed with such dogs 

 he could not fail of finding all the game that any covert 

 contained ; he seldom lost a wounded bird, nor (unless in 

 the pursuit of a winged pheasant, when they sometimes 

 laid hold of his tail feathers, which, from his rapid 

 running he left in their mouths) did his spaniels ever 

 break or rumple their game." 



