The Foxhound. 59 



Greenall as their master, are lineally descended from 

 those alluded to by Lord Wilton. Since these early 

 times and up to the present, every care has been 

 taken, and no expense spared, to produce a fox- 

 hound as near perfection as possible, in order to 

 follow the calling which finds such favour in our 

 land. Squire Osbaldeston, Colonel Thornton, Mr. 

 John Musters, Lord Henry Bentinck, and others 

 of a past generation ow^ned hounds that, either 

 collectively or individually, could not be surpassed. 

 With so much attention given to them, it was 

 no wonder a great writer on the subject arose, 

 and in 18 10 we have Peter Beckford's magnum 

 .op lis, which, so far as it goes, has had no rival 

 in its complete description of the foxhound, its 

 work and management. And what he wrote of 

 him is equally true to-day, lor no hound or dog 

 has changed so little in appearance and character 

 •during a century, as the foxhound. There have been 

 no crazes for fashionable colour, or for head formed, 

 •or ears hung, on purely fanciful principles. Hunters 

 wanted a dog for work, they soon provided one, and 

 have kept and sustained that animal for the 

 purpose. 



The duties a foxhound has often to undergo are 

 of the most arduous description ; he is repeatedly 

 on his legs for eight or ten hours at a stretch, often 



