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dogs or bitches refusing to break up a fox. 

 Besides, after a few days of this sort of work, 

 the fat laid on with such an expenditure of 

 time and attention has melted away, and 

 you have a pack even lighter in condition 

 than the one which has been kept in hard 

 flesh, carefully exercised, and made fit and 

 keen to go straight to work. 



The proper career of a fox-hound, from 

 his birth to his death, might be described 

 thus : I would have him bred from parents 

 in the prime of life, that have themselves 

 not only all the chief points of fox-hound 

 symmetry and substance, but the tried 

 qualities of pace, nose, and tongue ; and sent 

 to a farm walk where a hound is loved and 

 cared for, where new milk is liberally given 

 to the little lodger, and liberty to play, gallop 



