68 iPACT AGAINST FICTION. 



stand still, or race away in riot, skirting and con- 

 fusion. Without the hound can run the line the 

 fox has gone, and that he can alone 'do by his nose, 

 and stick to the line in all its changeful and difficult 

 phases, variety of ground, foil, &c., however 

 beautiful his shape and colour may be, he fails his 

 huntsman at a pinch, and is utterly useless in the 

 open fields and in cover. 



Thei^e is another species of foxhound that rivals 

 in* useless mischief the hound without a nose, and 

 that is the jealous hound Avithout temper, who is 

 chary of his tongue, and who, if he makes a hit in 

 cover, or on the other side of a fence from that on 

 which the pack chance to be, will j)ut his ears back 

 and his stern down, and race away in silent and in 

 jealous pertinacity. The hound loitJwut a nose 

 and the hound thus of his own purpose unthoiU a 

 tone/ lie should similarly be avoided ; for, however 

 beautiful the forms of each may be, and however 

 good the nose of the silent hound may be, both 

 these animals will serve to lose more foxes in one 

 half a season than they would help to kill in ten. 



In breeding, then, a strain comprising either of 

 these faults should be eradicated from the kenneh 

 If one .silent and jealous liound thus slips away with 



