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ing the same hounds for all manner of chases, both 

 for food, sport and extermination, the creation of 

 types, and to a certain extent the recognition of 

 Somervile's dictum (before Somervile's day), " A 

 diff'rent hound for ev'ry diff'rent chase "; the period 

 when the stag and the hare were the principal beasts 

 of venery, the recognition of the fox and his inclusion 

 in the hst of animals worthy of chase, the slow manner 

 of hunting on foot, or horses possessing no pace, and 

 with Southern hounds and harriers gifted with little 

 pace, and later a type of Foxhound little better; 

 then the commencement of the evolution of pace 

 when the country became freer of forests and the 

 true merits alike of fox and Foxhound were dis- 

 covered. These are, very shortly, the principal 

 headings of the evolution of the Foxhound and 

 withal of fox-hunting, so far as they can be dealt 

 with in the limits of so short a chapter. 



One would like to have followed the example of 

 the old Southern hound and the old type of harrier 

 and dwelt long on the line of such red-letter names 

 in the history of the evolution as Charles Pelham 

 (the first Lord Yarborough), Lord Granby, Sir 

 Roland Winn, Mr E. Legard, Sir Walter Vavasour, 

 Mr Willoughby, Sir Thomas Jascoyn, the Dukes of 

 Grafton, Devonshire and Beaufort, John Warde, 

 John Corbet, the sixth Lord Middleton, the im- 

 mortal Osbaldistone, Mr John Musters, Col. 



