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accord ; needless to say she ran only a very short 

 distance, being stiff and chilled, before thev were 

 rewarded with their well-earned whoo-whoop and a 

 taste of blood. I consider the Welsh hound the 

 best for Wales, the English hound for England ; the 

 styles of hunting, owing to the natural as w^ell as 

 the other requirements of the two countries, more 

 especially in the present day, being so vastly 

 different. 



'' During the past fifty years English hounds 

 (smooth coated) have been extensively used in 

 Wales, and, such being the case, the cross that is 

 now being ' tried so successfully ' should not be 

 called a cross with the Welsh hound, but rather with 

 the hound from Wales, virtually an English hound, 

 which has undoubtedly increased its scenting 

 qualities from such cross, the colder hunting country 

 and the lesser amount of lifting. I think there are 

 very few cases where English masters of hounds 

 have crossed with the original rough Welsh hound — 

 in fact, there are very few in the Welsh packs. In 

 the Radnorshire and West Herefordshire, which Col. 

 Robert Price, a late master, had hunted for more 

 than five-and-twenty years, there were several of the 

 old wire-haired Welsh hounds, which he always 

 valued at their weight in gold ; but he was compelled 

 to go with the times, and get a strain of English 



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