TO MASTERS OF HOUNDS 



sake ; they will take care of good horses, 

 but will not do so of bad ones. 



Be careful how you breed your hounds. 

 In forming a pack you will have to be de- 

 pendent, in a great measure, on sires from 

 other packs. But do not be tempted to run 

 after a hound because he has won at Peter- 

 borough, or is very good-looking, or is even 

 said to be very good in his work, if he 

 comes of a strain that you do not like, or if 

 his pedigree contains a lot of soft blood, or 

 if his ancestors come from a kennel that you 

 cannot trust. A chance-bred foxhound is like 

 a chance-bred racehorse : he may be very 

 good at his work, but he is worthless for 

 breeding. Not being carefully bred himself, 

 the faults of his progenitors are certain to 



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