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Are you fond of hounds ? Here is a pack that cannot 

 be surpassed, to delight the most fastidious eye, satisfy 

 the most critical taste. Do you like to see them hunt f 

 Watch how these put their noses down, tempering 

 energy with patience, yet so bustling and resolute as to 

 work a bad scent into a good one. Are you an admirer 

 of make-and-shape ? Mark this perfect symmetry of 

 form, bigger, stronger, and tougher than it looks. Do 

 you understand kennel management and condition ? 

 Ask Gillard why his hounds are never known to tire, 

 and get from him what hints you can. 



Lastly, do you want to gallop and jump, defeat your 

 dearest friends, and get to the end of your best horse ? 

 That is but a moderate scenting-day, on which the 

 Belvoir will not afford opportunity to do both. If you 

 can live with them while they run, and see them race 

 into their fox at the finish, I congratulate you on having 

 science, nerve, all the qualities of horsemanship, a good 

 hunter, and, above all, a good groom. 



These remarks as to pace, stoutness, and sporting 

 qualities, apply also to the Quorn, the Cottesmore, and 

 the Pytchley. This last, indeed, with its extensive range 

 of woodlands in Rockingham Forest, possesses the 

 finest hunting country in England, spacious enough to 

 stand six days a week in the mildest of winters all the 



