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and the fastidious, the quarrelsome and the 

 kind, the light-hearted and the stout-hearted. 

 There are hounds that can drive, and hounds 

 that can stoop ; the ones that can draw, and 

 the ones that are handy to cast. There 

 are some that combine all these virtues, 

 and, alas ! others that are guilty at times 

 of babbling, riot, skirting, and turning a 

 deaf ear to the horn. The object of hunts- 

 men has never been to turn their packs 

 into mechanical fox-killers to do so 

 would be to drag down the kennel to 

 the level of the steel trap and vulpicide's 

 gun. 



Much of the charm of hunting consists in 

 the style, grace, and neatness in which it is 

 done. Hunting must be a pleasure to the 

 eye ; it should be picturesque and in harmony 



