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for hunting is the middle size. Such hounds 

 will be big enough to go through dirt, and 

 not too big to draw and run in cover. Were 

 I an M.F. H., ambitious to distinguish my- 

 self at the Peterborough Show, I confess I 

 should be puzzled to know how to do it, for 

 the hounds that go to Peterborough are the 

 selected few from thousands that go to walk. 

 It probably is within the mark to say that, 

 over an average of years, a Master who 

 sends out sixty to eighty couple of puppies 

 considers that he is fortunate if, out of this 

 number, there are ten couple that come up 

 to the standard at which he aims. Out of 

 these he can only hope now and again to find 

 a couple whose merit is so evenly balanced 

 as to give a chance of success in the show 

 ring ; and when in a lucky year he thinks he 



