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sumably all are portraits, but we have no evidence on 

 the subject, as we never saw a print in which the names 

 of the individual hounds were given. It is a fact, 

 though, that in the outdoor picture the hounds painted 

 have very much more bone than those painted in the 

 kennel scene, and one cannot help thinking that one 

 of the artists must have misjudged or exaggerated what 

 he saw. (The question of ** bone " in a foxhound would 

 hardly be within the ken of an artist of a hundred 

 years ago, though at least two modern delineators 

 of hounds know just as much about it as do the 

 authorities on the breed.) Both pictures give ample 

 evidence of careful portraiture, but in both hounds 

 are in working condition, so fine drawn that all 

 their ribs can be counted, and not in the least got 

 up for show. The feet seem higher, and not quite 

 so catlike as those of the modern foxhound, and 

 there is more white in the colouring than there is in 

 many of the present-day packs. All the hounds are 

 rounded ; some are branded with a " D " on the near 

 flank, and all have fair make and shape, and plenty 

 of foxhound character. Indeed, if all the packs of a 

 hundred years ago were as good to look at as those of 

 Lord Darlington, hound breeding cannot have made 

 the great advance with which it has been credited ; but 

 there is just a suspicion that in Chalon's picture one 

 or two of the hounds were a little back at the knee, 

 while in Marshall's hounds there is a tendency to 

 heavy shoulders. 



Unfortunately there is no record of the old Raby 

 pack in the earliest volume of the Stud Book, but 

 Baronet, mentioned above, was used by Mr. Ralph 

 Lambton, and appears as the sire of Billingsgate in 

 1815. And apropos the book it may be mentioned 



