CHAPTER II 



For hounds of middle size, active and strong, 



Will better answer all thy various ends. 



And crown thy pleasing labours with success." 



SoMERVILE. 



Description of Hound adapted to Hertfordshire — Good and bad Luck — Mr. 

 Meynell's Opinion as to the Size of a Hound — Mr. Barnett and the Cam- 

 bridgeshire—Fast Hounds and quick Hounds— Lord Segrave's Blood— Draft 

 from his Kennel — Hon. G. Berkley and his Hounds — Size of Hounds best 

 for Herts — Arched Loins, or wheeled Backs — Purity of Blood to be pre- 

 ferred to any Cross — Mr. Smith's Cross with the Bloodhound — Shape of 

 Hounds — their height. 



It would be the height of presumption in me, were I 

 to make any attempt at offering any dogmas upon the 

 system of kennel. I write, not for the information of 

 the learned, but for the amusement of the uninitiated in 



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