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blood for his flying Herefordshire country, where 

 horses and men are faster than those over the Welsh 

 hills, and where hounds must be got out of their 

 way." 



Mr. P. J. Savile Foljambe wrote that in 1871 he 

 purchased, at Lord Wemyss's sale, three unentered 

 bitches, by Lord Queensberry's Talisman, a hound 

 with a good deal of Welsh blood in his veins. Two 

 of these bitches were most determined hard runners, 

 with plenty of tongue, but not too much of it. The 

 third had the best nose over dry or rough fallows of 

 anything in the kennel. She was, he believed, the 

 best all-round foxhound he ever had, and a capital 

 fox finder. Three or four of the litter, which Mr. 

 Foljambe did not take, were of the colour of blood- 

 hounds. 



I think that a capital case in favour of the Welsh 

 hound has been made out, and one has yet to find 

 where the cross, when properly done, has not been 

 found useful in its introduction with the modern 

 foxhound. To hunt the otter, the Welsh hound, in 

 the state as pure as it can be obtained now, is said 

 to be harder than the ordinary otter hound, and his 

 close, hard coat sooner dries than the longer and 

 often softer one of the hound so common in the 

 north of England. There appears to be two types of 

 the Welsh hound nowadays, whatever was the case 



