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The selection of brood bitches, the choosing 

 of sires, the rearing of puppies, the finding 

 of walks, the losses by distemper ; the 

 accidents, the drafting, the entering ; the 

 exercising and disciplining of young hounds ; 

 the conditioning of working hounds, their 

 maintenance in health, their feeding and 

 kennelling, these give but an outline of 

 the subjects that demand the skilled atten- 

 tion of an M.F. H. and his servants. It is 

 man that has made the fox-hound not less 

 than the race-horse. Nature's laws are hard 

 to learn, and slow in their operation, but 

 by lives passed in their study, and by 

 experience and practice, the fox-hound 

 has been evolved, and the kennels of 

 England can boast of many hundred 

 couples of hounds, each one of which 



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