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share, appeared to consider the fox to be all their own; and, it appeared, 

 they carry some of their savage propensities into the kennel. On my 

 speaking of them, one day, to Walker, he said that Ajax could turn the 

 feeder out of the kennel whenever he liked to do so. He is a hound of 

 superior strength and size, and, like his namesake of old, who made the 

 Trojans tremble, and even Hector look queer, on that account fearless. 



1 have heard many people say — '' fox-hounds are fox-hounds; there 

 is but little difference in the appearance of one pack and another," — 

 meaning of course long established packs. Indeed ! Now I will admit 

 that there is a closer resemblance between hound and hound, and grey- 

 hound and greyhound, in form and colour, than between any other kind 

 of dog familiar to our eye ; but I positively deny the above assertion, and 

 need go no further than the kennel I am speaking of in support of the 

 same. There is in it a bitch called Bluebell, (not in the List, for she is 

 stone blind, from cataracts in both eyes) from the Belvoir kennel. Now 

 I would give Walker, or any other huntsman in England, the chances 

 of three crosses, and challenge him to produce a fox-hound of similar 

 shape, appearance, and symmetry to this Belvoir bitch. Although far 

 from faultless, she is altogether a splendid animal of her sort, and an 

 entire pack, all like her, would be such a sight as the world never has 

 seen, neither is it ever likely to see. She exhibits the very ultra extent 

 of high breeding in the fox-hound ; in other words the nearly astound- 

 ing length to which the presumption of man has carried him, in im- 

 proving upon the works of his Maker. 



