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feeling that the artist, then as now, did not always 

 reproduce what the writer intended. The depicting 

 of animals in a manner true to nature is an art of 

 modern development, as may be seen by looking 

 at the horses and hounds in pictures of the early 

 part of the last century, and the caricatures which 

 do duty as portraits of some of the early celebrities 

 on the turf. In spite of the iteration of the same 

 adjective one can realise better from the text what 

 manner of hound the great French sportsman had in 

 mind. 



" A running hound should be well born and well 

 grown of body, and should have great nostrils and 

 open, and a long snout but not small, and great lips 

 and well handing down, and great eyes red or black, 

 and a great forehead and great head, and large ears 

 well long and well hanging down, broad and near 

 the head, a great neck, great breast and shoulders 

 and great legs and strong and not too long, and 

 great feet, round, and great claws and the feet a 

 little low, small flanks and long sides and good chine 

 bone and great back, good thighs and great hind 

 legs, and the hocks straight and not bowed, the tail 

 great and high and not cromping upon the back, but 

 straight and a little cromping upward." 



One may, perhaps, demur to the small fianks and 

 long sides, but the writer clearly had a hound in his 

 mind not far removed in general characteristics from 

 the hounds of to-day. 



It is worthy of note in connection with description 



