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put you in your right place, and you will be grateful 

 for the most trifling hint that helps you to spare your 

 horse, and remain on any kind of terms with them, on 

 ground no less trying to his temper and intelligence than 

 to his wind and muscular powers. 



Till you attempt to gallop alongside you will hardly 

 believe how hard the hounds are running. They neither 

 carry such a head, nor dash so eagerly, I might almost 

 say jealously } for the scent as if they were hunting their 

 natural quarry, the fox. This difference I attribute to 

 the larger size, and consequently stronger odour, of 

 a deer. Every hound enjoying his full share, none 

 are tempted to rob their comrades of the mysterious 

 pleasure, and we therefore miss the quick, sharp turns 

 and the drive that we are accustomed to consider so 

 characteristic of the fox-hound. They string, too, in 

 long-drawn line, because of the tall, bushy heather, 

 necessitating great size and power, through which they 

 must make their way ; but, nevertheless, they keep 

 swinging steadily on, without a check or hover for 

 many a mile of moorland, showing something of that 

 fierce indomitable perseverance attributed by Byron 

 to the wolf 



"With his long gallop that can tire 

 The hound's deep hate and hunter's fire." 



