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difference between sl fast hound, and a quick hound." 

 I was delighted with a remark so entirely coinciding 

 with my own long- cherished opinion, for I have ever held 

 that a hound may be able to fly, that is, may be pos- 

 sessed of physical ability to run like a greyhound, and 

 yet prove a slow brute in chase ; but give me a quick 

 hound, a hound instinctively quick in working for and 

 catching a scent, and I will answer for his following his 

 nose fast enough for the best horse ever foaled. 



We all know the truth of the proverb that " hke will 

 beget like ;" and the fact, that certain qualities are heredi- 

 tary, is illustrated no less in the breed of hounds and 

 horses than in that of the " genus humanum sine cauda, 

 carnivorum," &c. 



" Fortes creantur fortibus, et bonis, 

 Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum 

 Vii-tus : neque imbellem feroces 

 Progenerant aquilre columbam." 



HOR. 



" ayaBol b eyevovro 8ia to (^iivai. e^ nyadav." — Plato. 



" Oh worthiness of nature, breed of greatness, 

 Cowards father cowards, and base things sire the base." 



Shakspeare. 



In my attempt to estabhsh a pack to my mind's eye, I 

 never lost sight of the sort which I considered could not fail 

 to suit, and from my old former ally, George Mountford, 

 then hunting the Quorn under Mr. Errington, I luckily 

 obtained several couples of that blood which I had 

 learned to prize in the palmy days of the old Oakley, 



