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of course, we are told by a competent authority, 

 there were very few of perfect symmetry, combining 

 all the essential points with plenty of bone and 

 straicrht fore-les^s. 



Some twenty years ago we endeavoured, in 

 conjunction with the late Lord Ducie, to establish 

 a show of foxhounds at TattersalFs, during the 

 week of the Epsom or Ascot meeting, and at the 

 same time to form a club of masters and ex- 

 masters, to a committee of whom all disputes as to 

 rights of country should be referred. The diffi- 

 culties and expenses attendant upon the transit of 

 hounds at that time were, however, considered by 

 those living at long distances from London to be 

 grave obstacles, and the proposal fell to the ground. 

 The case is now altered, from railway communica- 

 tion ; but we are still of opinion that London would 

 be the best place for the show, as more central and 

 easier of access to the majority of masters of fox- 

 hounds, and a very large body of sportsmen, who 

 generally pay an annual visit to the mighty 

 Babylon at that season of the year, and would no 

 doubt take great interest in the exhibition of nearly 

 all the finest hounds, selected from the best kennels. 

 Our object also was by means of an admission fee, 

 sufficiently high to exclude the Unwashed, to form 

 a fund which should be applied to the assistance of 

 deserving huntsmen or whippers-in out of place, in 

 reduced circumstances, or disabled by accident or 

 illness. The assembling together of so many 

 masters of foxhounds cannot fail to be beneficial 

 both to themselves and the cause generally. They 



