BKEEDiXG And hunting of foxhounds. (j5 



CHAPTER III. 



breeding and hunting of foxhounds. 



Points to be remembered in Breeding — Faults to be Avoided — 

 The "Oakley Pack" — Value of Young Hounds — How the 

 Puppies should be Managed — Steady Huntsman, steady Hounds 

 — On the Death of the Fox and a Good Eun, Go Home — ■ 

 Keward your Hounds — Be Judicious and Moderate in the 

 Punishment of Faults — Inspire Confidence in your Hounds — A 

 Check depends on Circumstances — George Carter — Incident in. 

 the " Oakley Country" — Dog Language — Condition of Hounds 

 — Incident at Knuston Spinney ; the Fox and the Flock of Sheep 

 — Folly of Tooting the Horn continually — The Huntsmen, Harry 

 Ayris and Tom Oldacre. 



In breeding" and educating this splendid species of 

 the canine race, standing out so prominently as the 

 offspring of the British Isles, the same tenderness 

 and method In teaching, and the same attention 

 as to nose and power, legs and feet, should rule 

 as regards the foxhound even more than In all 

 other kinds of the canine race. Those foolish 

 '^ dog shows," wdilcli have of late years Ijecome the 

 fashion, in cases Avhere the owner of a pack of 



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