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our leading packs, and the forward riding displayed 

 by them, another feature has been demanded, and 

 ' the supply ' in the ' grass countries ' has been ob- 

 tained in a remarkable manner. I allude to the gift 

 peculiar to our best modern hounds of getting 

 through a crowd of horses when accidentally 

 ' slipped ' by the pack. This faculty is developed 

 to a very wonderful extent in all packs hunting the 

 ' Shires/ varying, of course, slightly in each, and it is 

 no 1 s remarkably absent in certain packs otherwise 

 equal .o the Quorn and its neighbours, or even 

 superior to them." I may say that through force of 

 circumstances this valued gift of self-preservation has 

 lately been exhibited by Her Majesty's and some other 

 packs within easy railway distance of our great 

 metropolis. 



The following is from an article by Mr. G. S. Lowe, 

 that appeared in the Field some time ago, and as it 

 deals more fully with our present strain of fox- 

 hounds and their pedigrees (there is a foxhound 

 stud book now) than I could, I have an excuse for 

 its republication : 



The casual observer in the hunting field might not be inclined 

 to appreciate the laudations bestowed upon certain hounds in 

 almost every pack. Hounds run very much in one form, and a 

 huntsman of, say, forty years' experience might call up hounds to 

 his memory to number in the aggregate several thousands, though 

 in speaking of any exquisites he will refer to two or three only 



