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because, if with all its music, speed were added in 

 such a country, the fields would never see or hear 

 any more of the pack until it had found its way 

 back to the kennels during the following week pro- 

 bably. 



''I cannot agree that the Welsh hound takes more 

 whip, that is in cases where discipline is taught in 

 the kennels, on the saaviter in modo et fortiter in re 

 principle. As an all-round worker the Welsh 

 hound is certainly bad to beat. All my lot, princi- 

 pally wire-haired, were very good on an otter, and 

 after Christmas, with the assistance of a few old 

 foxhounds as finders, were very steady on our moun- 

 tain foxes ; and many a badger have they accounted 

 for on our moonlight excursions. Hares were 

 supposed to be their legitimate game, and we could 

 kill plenty, with often a straight-necked one going 

 over the hills and far away, as if a fox were in front 

 of hounds. At this sport I never lifted them, giving 

 wily puss every chance for her life. I remember 

 on one occasion suddenly losing our hare on an 

 open hill, and trying round and round to put her up 

 again ; she had doubled back, and at last catching 

 sight of her squatting in a deep wheel rut nearly 

 covered over with water ; hounds must have walked 

 over her several times. I took them to the spot over 

 and over again, before they got her up of her own 



