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increasing faculties. Mr. Meynell was so particular with 

 regard to walks, that he would not hesitate to send his 

 young hounds some hundred miles from Quorn, and 

 quarter several couples upon friends in Sussex, or in 

 any pther counties where they would be sure of meeting 

 with the treatment upon which their maturity depended. 

 It is a fortunate circumstance in any country, where 

 gentlemen are disposed to receive such proteges at their 

 seats. The disadvantages of a walk in a town, are 

 more than proportionate to the advantage of making 

 them familiar with all those objects of which hounds, 

 on first entering upon the world, are apt to be shy. By 

 being exercised in couples, after their return to kennel, 

 along the public roads and through streets, they will 

 soon conquer any fear of carriages, droves, &c., and lose 

 altogether that mauvaise honte which is a defect rather 

 than an appertainment of their nature. Unless your reli- 

 ance is upon drafts from other kennels, nothing is more 

 essential to having a good pack of hounds, than a pro- 

 per care of the whelps, and the parents from which they 

 are bred. The bitches should be carefully chosen, and 

 should not only be such as are most distinguished in 

 the field, but such as are strongest and best propor- 

 tioned, with large ribs and flanks. Never breed from 

 a faulty hound, be his performance ever so good ; nor 

 from the best shaped hound, addicted to any incorri- 

 gible propensities, which are hereditary. The best time 



