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the crash of any tongues, I used to turn my head 

 to watch the effect on Voucher. He would at tunes 

 stand still behind my horse and listen attentively, 

 turnino; his sa^racious head from side to side, and 

 after making up his mind what the row was about, 

 he would act accordingly. If he disliked the cry 

 he heard, he would scratch back with his hinder 

 legs and growl, accomjDanying the action with a 

 most unmitigated mark of contempt ; but if he 

 heard a tongue in that cry whose truth he knew 

 he could trust, he was off like a shot to give his 

 best assistance. Occasionally, just at first, I have 

 seen him deceived, but not for long ; for in a very 

 few minutes, on finding that there was riot on foot, 

 he would return to his post of observation at the 

 heels of my horse. If he remained in cover even a 

 little while, it was safe for me to cheer to the cry 

 and to get my hounds together. 



In breediiag, never, if you can avoid it, breed from 

 faults on either side, but stick as closely as you can 

 to ])erfecti on. If faults are in sire or dam, rely on 

 it they will re-appear ; for though you may try to 

 meet a difhculty by putting a hound very free of 

 tongue to one too chary of it, or a hound a little 

 wide in his work to one if anything apt to dwell on 



