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formerly, and there is quite as much difference 

 between Landmark and Lively — portraits of which 

 head this article — as there is between a foxhound of 

 24 inches and a harrier of 18 inches. The descrip- 

 tion of them, as given on another page, is that of 

 the Welsh hound as he ought to be, and this chapter 

 cannot better be concluded than in the words of an 

 English M.F.H., who, with considerable experience 

 of the Welsh cross, wrote : '' It is probably needless 

 to say that, if a master of hounds wants to show at 

 Peterborough, or is very particular about the looks 

 of his pack, he must have nothing to do with the 

 Welsh cross. I do not know anything about pure 

 Welsh hounds, but this makes the third season in 

 which I have hunted som.e hounds with a Welsh 

 cross in them. The two disadvantages of the cross 

 seem to me to be appearance and the difficulty of 

 breaking these hounds from riot. They require a 

 great deal more whip than English hounds, and it 

 takes far more trouble to get them steady. The 

 advantages appear to be these : They enter quicker 

 than English hounds ; they hunt better by them- 

 selves, and persevere more when their huntsman 

 cannot get to them ; they have more tongue, and, I 

 am inclined to think, rather better noses. I have 

 never had one of these hounds which babbled, or 

 threw its tongue when going into covert, and I have 



