CHAPTER XIV 



OF RUNNING HOUNDS AND OF THEIR NATURE 



A RUNNING hound is a kind of hound there be 

 few men that have not seen some of them. Never- 

 theless I shall devise how a running hound shall 

 be held for good and fair, and also shall I devise 

 of their manners. Of all hues of running hounds, 

 there are some which be good, and some which 

 be bad or evil as of greyhounds. But the best 

 hue of running hounds and most common for to 

 be good, is called brown tan. Also the goodness 

 of running hounds, and of all other kinds of good 

 hounds, Cometh of true courage and of the good 

 nature of their good father and of their good 

 mother. And also as touching greyhounds, men 

 may well help to make them good by teaching as 

 by leading them to the wood and to fields, and to 

 be always near them, in making of many good 

 curées when they have done well, and of rating at 

 and beating them when they have done amiss, for 

 they are beasts, and therefore have they need to 

 learn that which men will they should do. A 

 running hound should be well born, and well 



grown of body, and should have great nostrils and 



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