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flying out of the picture to meet you as they 

 dash over a rail or thread a fence ; and will 

 create not only a remarkable study in fore- 

 shortening of hounds, but one that fills the 

 onlooker with amazement at the courage of 

 the artist who, in order to make his study, 

 must have placed himself and his canvas 

 betwixt fox and hound, and braved the rush 

 and charge of the yelling pack. The fox is 

 often introduced upon the scene, that fox we 

 so frequently hear about, " dead beat, with 

 his tongue hanging out," but so beautifully 

 clean that one wonders where is that mudless 

 country in which, instead of dashing at a 

 draggled fox with his back up, the hounds 

 follow this galloping and cleanly animal, with 

 his mouth wide open and, of course, his 

 tongue hanging out. How different is the 



