150 Horse and Hound, 



one that ran by sight, represented by the grey- 

 hound, and the sleuth, or slow trailing hound, 

 represented by the bloodhound. The latter was 

 noted for the melody of his deep-toned tongue 

 and his acute power of puzzling out and sticking 

 to a cold trail, but he was too slow for the red 

 whirlwind, though he could potter all day on the 

 track of a stag and finally bring him to "pot." 



His cousin, the greyhound, had speed to burn, 

 but in close cover and rough country he was all 

 at sea, and once out of sight his quarry was safe, 

 so it was the most natural thing in the world 

 that the two should be crossed, and the result was 

 the foxhound. 



The cut of Fag, taken from the Sporting 

 Magazine, published in 1796, shows the type re- 

 sulting from the cross in its earlier stages. 



The efficiency of hounds depends entirely 

 upon the breeding, and to maintain a pack or 

 strain up to the required standard of excellence, 

 continual selection of superior animals is neces- 

 sary. 



One of the soundest principles of breeding is 

 that the longer certain desirable qualities have 

 been handed down from generation to genera- 

 tion, the more certain you can count upon a con- 

 tinuance of the same. Heredity is undoubtedly 

 the strongest force in nature, but it does not con- 

 trol the individual peculiarities of a sire or dam, 

 but where these characteristics have existed for 



