HOUND BREEDING. 



shape, weak in their loins, and with bad legs and 

 feet, because they had good noses, what would be 

 the result ? That, if you carried the idea far enough, 

 you might get a sensitive nose, but the frame would 

 not be able to carry it fast enough or long enough 

 to catch a fox. 



This, of course, is an extreme case, and I don't 

 think for a moment there is a pack in the kingdom 

 that has got so low, and I have simply pointed out 

 what might happen if care is not taken in the 

 selection of stallion hounds and brood-bitches. 



I am assuming that no master of hounds would 

 use a stallion hound, however well bred, unless he 

 was a good working hound and a real fox catcher. 



These other packs I mentioned, bred haphazardly 

 so to speak, often show good sport and kill their 

 foxes. But can they drive, pack together, and hunt 

 their fox to death in the same style as their better- 

 bred brethren? Emphatically no, they cannot. 

 Again in the afternoon, after a hard morning's work 

 in covert, can they race and drive like a pack whose 

 pedigrees run to Belvoir ? No, again. It cannot be 

 denied that the better hounds are bred the better 

 they do their work, their true make and shape and 

 high breeding allowing them to do it in the best 

 style, no matter how long the day or what distance 

 they cover. 



I will repeat again that, though some slack and 

 useless hounds may have the bluest of blue blood in 



