ADVICE ON FOX-HUNTING 



insist on great spring of the ribs. There is 

 a medium in all things, and ribs and bone 

 must be kept up to a certain extent, or 

 your hounds will look shallow, and, as Mr 

 Bragg said, "only fit to hunt a cat in a 

 kitchen." But I will never believe that a 

 hound tires because he is light of bone ; 

 my experience has been all the other way, 

 against "that useless appendage," as Lord 

 Henry Bentinck called bone. In my opinion, 

 the thing that makes a hound stoop to the 

 scent easily is a good neck and shoulders, 

 so that the hound is running at his ease 

 and within himself all the time. I would 

 never sacrifice necks and shoulders to bone, 

 straightness, or ribs. But I hear someone 

 say "Nose." Well, I suppose there are 



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