go Modern Dogs. 



and Vendee hounds, and certainly the EngHsh hounds 

 we are now receiving are more suitable for our pur- 

 pose than formerly. It will not, however, do to go 

 too fast, because unless able to acquire hounds of 

 the very highest stamp, the result will be to pro- 

 duce cross-breds with less stamina than our old 

 breeds. Recollect that with my Griffons, so staunch 

 and hard, I have hunted old wolves over fifty miles 

 from find to finish, and on several occasions both 

 my own horse and that of my huntsman have died 

 from the severity of such runs. 



'' In my opinion the English buy too many of the 

 Vendee hounds ; they would do far better to acquire 

 those of Saintonge and Haut-Poitou, which are 

 much superior to the Vendees, a breed which has 

 been subject to such a variety of bad crosses that 

 one never knows what will be the result. And 

 finally, the hounds that really guard change are the 

 St. Hubert's (or bloodhounds), the Saintongeois, and 

 the Poitevins." 



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

 that appeared in the Field some half-dozen years 

 ago, and as it deals more fully with our present 

 strain of foxhounds and their pedigrees (there is a 

 foxhound stud book now) than I could, there is 

 excuse for its republication : 



'' The casual observer in the hunting field might 



