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terriers and spaniels also mafe a good cross. 

 Direcdy the jackal breaks, get the fastest dogs 

 away with him and let the others come as they 

 can, and you will have many a good gallop. 

 The use of the body of the pack is to find and 

 to force the jackal out of covert. It is well to 

 ride so as to view him as much as possible ; if 

 you lose sight of him you must wait till some 

 of the " smell " dogs arrive on the scene. Very 

 curious traits of canine character are seen- in 

 a bobbery pack. One dog I had, a cross 

 between a spaniel and retriever, was an animal 

 of extraordinary sagacity — one of those that 

 could turn to any trade. His proper occu- 

 pation was retrieving, and a capital retriever 

 he was, but one morning he escaped and went 

 out with the bobbery pack. For some time he 

 watched the proceedings, then grasping the 

 fact that finding a jackal was the object, he 

 trotted straight off to the kennel of the quarry 

 and roused him. After this he would always 

 find the jack ; he seemed to know by instinct 

 if there was one in the covert. If not he 

 would refuse to go in. No sooner did the run 

 begin than poor old Dash was left miles behind 

 and could be seen toiling across the plain, 

 cutting off corners and striving to be up at the 

 finish or to share in the work of turning the 

 (juarry out of some garden or coppice in which 



