4 HOUNDS. 



to the generosity of every master of foxhounds. 

 Get your bitches good, and you are more than 

 half way on the road to possessing a good pack of 

 hounds. This would be my advice to anyone con- 

 templating taking a country and breeding hounds. 



Now a word or two about the other packs that are 

 not fashionably bred. What percentage of the 

 existing packs of foxhounds should be included 

 under this heading ? To commence with, I should 

 exclude those packs that hunt the mountainous 

 coimtries in the North and in Wales, as they are 

 almost a distinct breed to the modern foxhound. 

 The class of hound I should include would be those 

 belonging to a pack which used almost entirely 

 their own stallion hounds, irrespective of pedigree. 



It is commonly agreed among houndmen that nose 

 is hereditary, but does it often happen that a hound 

 with a wonderful nose ever gets one quite as good as 

 himself in this respect ? Was his sire as good ? 

 These remarks probably appear contradictory, but I 

 have often noticed that a hound that can hunt the 

 line when the others cannot touch it, seldom gets 

 puppies that have as good noses as their sire. If a 

 hound, well bred and good enough looking, does 

 have an exceptionally good nose, he will, of course, , 

 be used freely, but my advice is, do not use a hound 

 simply because he has a tender nose, irrespective of 

 pedigree a^id shape. 



If one continued to breed from hounds faulty in 



