The Origin of Fox-htmting 



coup I'll keep in memory of her." This is the 

 English view in all classes towards the foxhound, 

 and he is no ordinary animal to be the national 

 favourite. He has been brought to wonderful 

 perfection in beauty and frame ; he is quite un- 

 tireable ; foxes may run for miles through parishes 

 and almost counties, to bring horses to every kind 

 of grief and distress, but the hounds will not be 

 beaten. They will be always showing the same 

 dash over plough or pasture, ridge or furrow, and 

 leave every kind of fence behind them, amid a 

 music of their own which is charming. 



Other countries have hounds, mostly poor drafts 

 from England, but they are not at all the same as 

 the genuine coin of this kingdom, and, moreover, 

 foreigners cannot breed foxhounds. The shades of 

 Hugo Meynell, G. S. Foljambe, Assheton Smith, 

 and Lord Henry Bentinck have never departed, 

 and their followers may now be more numerous 

 than ever, but, like communities of mankind, the 

 foxhounds themselves are in various degrees of 

 character and individualism, and this has been 

 fully understood and appreciated by the past- 

 masters who have bred them. Mr. Corbet, in a 

 long experience, believed in his day that nothing 

 could touch Trojan in any part of a run or for his 

 extraordinary intelligence, and Lord Middleton 

 (Lord Henry, as he was always called) was gener- 

 ous to a degree in giving away good hounds ; but 



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