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one. Speed and strength alike call for great length from hip 

 to hock, and as little as possible from hock to foot. As for the 

 size of the hound's head, that is the best size which is oftenest 

 well to the fore on the line of the fox. * 



The animal chosen as an example of what a hound should 

 be is the Badminton Potentate, a dog which, born in 1840, 

 did notable service in the hunting field for eleven seasons, and 

 has transmitted his own sterling qualities to successive gene- 

 rations. He is one which the man in search of a hound 



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will do well to carry in his eye. He died in 1851. As a 

 contrast to him the picture of a bad hound is given, his de- 

 fects being purposely emphasised in order that they may at 

 once strike the observer. Such a nightmare of a hound is 

 not to be discovered in any hunting field, but by a course of 

 injudicious breeding he might conceivably be produced. From 

 head to stern he is all that a hound should not be. His shape- 

 less head is joined by a thick neck to a shockingly clumsy pair 

 of shoulders, which have no liberty of action about them. His 



