THE BELVOIR HUNT, 33 



to the infusions they have procured from 

 the fashionable kennels, where a long 

 series of time has permitted those types of 

 excellence to be cultivated which are in- 

 dispensable to the perpetuation of similar 

 perfections. 



There may be diversities of opinions, or 

 rather of tastes, concerning size or colour, 

 but there can be but one standard as re- 

 gards beauty of outline, and the very im- 

 portant formations of shoulders, backs, 

 loins, thighs, legs, and feet. That hounds 

 of the present day have acquired those 

 perfections of symmetry with a sacrifice of 

 hunting accomplishments, is an argument 

 in which I am by no means prepared to 

 acquiesce. That any person can offer an 

 acceptable reason why a great, coarse, plain 

 hound should possess olfactory powers of 

 a higher order, greater industry and en- 

 durance, or that most Indispensable pro- 

 perty of turning on the line, — and, more- 



