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The dogs are about 24 to 27 inches, and the bitches 

 about 23 inches. They have ears about 2 feet long, 

 and are nearly all dark blue -mottled, with a few red- 

 mottled and lemon and hare-pied. They have large 

 flews, and dewlaps like bulls, but crooked legs and 

 not good feet, also eyes showing the haw like Blood- 

 hounds, and wrinkled foreheads. Their music is 

 simply beautiful, and sounds for miles like thunder 

 rising and falling. With a good scent they can 

 fairly race, but with a bad one they sit and roar 

 on the line. In kennels they are very sattage indeed, 

 and are always fighting, and occasionally eat one of 

 their companions. From being so in -bred their 

 nerves are like fiddle -strings, and when first cast 

 off they go roaring away for half a mile, but once 

 on the line one cannot stop them. Also they are 

 very savage at a kill, and will pin you if not careful. 

 I had great difficulty in getting them, mostly from the 

 remnants of old packs in the Weald of Kent, and 

 a few from the Stannington, Penistone, Holmfirth 

 and Honley. The puppies are very hard to bring 

 up and often are malformed at birth from in- 

 breeding." 



