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case of the harrier of foxhound blood. This (ahuost) 

 perfect httle hound is hunted on foot, his ancestors 

 have been hunted in the same way for several 

 generations, and he is just the class of hound that 

 is required ; yet, because a bygone ancestor had a 

 trace of harrier blood in him he is all wrong, it is 

 argued ! By his critics it must be admitted that his 

 nice neck and shoulders, straight legs, and good 

 feet enable him to do his work far more easily than 

 the hound whose shoulders are thick, whose neck is 

 short, and whose legs are crooked. If, as is alleged, 

 his type is wrong, I would even suggest that fifty 

 years ago breeders of this fascinating little hound 

 did not really appreciate properly that, be a hound 

 a foxhound, a harrier, or a beagle, if he has good 

 shoulders, straight legs, good feet, and a strong 

 back and loin he can do his work better and more 

 easily, as I said just now, than his brothers and 

 sisters who know not the meaning of quality. 



Again, can men who are opposed to the smarter 

 type trace the pedigrees of their hounds for more 

 than five or six generations, if as far? One enthusiast 

 boasted that every hound in his kennel, with a single 

 exception, was descended from a hound that came 

 from Ireland whose pedigree no one knew 1 Yet 

 he would insist that his type of hound was the real, 

 true beagle, and the one we are accustomed to see 

 win at Peterborough was nothing but a dwarf 

 foxhound-harrier. 



