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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 " like will 

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

 hereditary, 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 

 Virtus : neque imbellem feroces 

 Progenerant aquilse columbam." 



HOK. 



" c'lyaOoi c'tyivovro oid to <pvvca £? ayadiov." — PlATO. 



" Oh worthiness of nature, breed of greatness, 

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



Shakspeare. 



In my attempt to establish 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. Erring- 

 ton, I luckily obtained several couples of that blood 

 which I had learned to prize in the palmy days of the 

 old Oakley, when George was huntsman to Lord Tavis- 

 tock, he having migrated, upon the Marquis resigning 

 the country, with that superior pack, which then be- 

 came the property of Lord Southampton, into Leices- 

 tershire. To prove that blood was my object, and that 

 I did not fear a transfer from the grass countries, I 

 should mention, that I had also not a few choice hounds 

 of Lord Lonsdale's breeding, both young and seasoned. 



