FOXES FOXHOUNDS & FOX-HUNTING 



interest to compare a typical member of a fell 

 pack with a hound from one of the crack Midland 

 kennels. Taking the standard type first, we find 

 that colour does not count when the judges are 

 summing up a hound's merits. A good hound 

 can never be a bad colour, so the specimen of 

 standard type under discussion may be black, 

 white, and tan, probably with a black saddle- 

 mark, and " Belvoir tan" about the head, 

 shoulders, and quarters. Certain champions 

 have been light coloured like the badger-pied 

 Milton Rector (1910). As regards conformation, 

 the hound will show fine quality, with tremendous 

 shoulders and forearms, and heavy bone carried 

 right down to his toes. He will stand twenty- 

 four inches or over, with plenty of heart and lung 

 room, though his ribs will be without any great 

 spring. He will have a certain amount of 

 length behind, and will stand forward at the 

 knee, so that when viewed from the front his toes 

 will be seen to turn in, the weight being placed on 

 the centre and outer surfaces. If his forefeet 

 be examined, the pad or heel will be found thick 

 and deep, the entire foot being contracted, thus 

 bringing the weight of the body upon the toes. 

 Such a hound gives the impression of size, power, 

 and weight, rather than activity and pace. 



Turning to the fell hound, we find a very 

 different type before us. Such a hound is light- 

 framed aU round, 22^ inches or thereabouts in 

 height, with hare feet as opposed to the round, 

 club-like feet of the fashionable sort, particularly 

 well let down and developed in the hind quarters, 

 short coupled, the ribs being carried well back, 

 good shoulders, and long, sloping pasterns. In- 

 stead of knuckling forward, he stands back at 

 the knee, the sloping pastern affording plenty of 



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