70 Modern Dogs. 



" The time generally occupied in running this 

 course is twenty-five to twenty-six minutes, and the 

 fastest time in which the leading hound has ever 

 done it is twenty-four minutes and thirty seconds. 

 The distance, when measured with the chain, turned 

 out to be 6 miles 975 yards. This gives a speed of 

 fifteen and a half miles per hour over a pumping 

 course — very different from an ordinary foxhunting 

 country, of course — but with a scent more than 

 breast high. 



" The course is certainly hilly, as the following 

 will show : On completing i mile 570 yards they 

 have climbed 1250ft.; in the next i mile 710 yards 

 they descend looft. ; during the next 1450 yards 

 they first ascend a further looft., and then descend 

 400ft. ; the next mile requires 400ft. to be climbed, 

 when they run a mile on comparatively level ground,, 

 and descend the 1250ft. again in the last mile. It 

 is practically all grass, with a few roughish places,, 

 and they surmount twenty-one stone walls averaging 

 5ft. 6in. in height. 



" Last June I bought from a midland pack a fox> 

 hound bitch by Lord Gal way's Harkaway (89), dam 

 out of Firefly (86), and dam's sire Belvoir Weather- 

 gage, the reason given for parting with her being 

 that she was too fast for the pack. After a good 

 deal of perseverance we got her to run our paraftin 



