CHAPTEE III. 



" For Louiids of middle size, active and strong, 

 Will better answer all thy various ends, 

 And croAvn thy pleasing labours with success." 



SOMERVILE. 



Description of Hound adapted to Hertfordshire— Good and Bad Luck — 

 Mr. Meyn ell's Opinion as to the Size of a Hound— Mr. Barnett and 

 the Cambridgeshire — Fast Hounds and Quick Hounds — Lord 

 Segrave's Blood— Draft from his Kennel — Hon. G. Berkeley and his 

 Hounds— Size of Hounds best for Herts— Arched Loins, or Wheeled 

 Backs — Puritj^ of Blood to be preferred to any Cross — Mr. Smith's 

 Cross with the Bloodhound — Shape of Hounds — their Height. 



It would be tlie 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 these mysteries. It is not my purpose to make any 

 compilation of practical details upon the treatment of 



