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models like Mr. Barry's Bluecap, and Mr. Corbet's 

 Trojan, bred for quality, stoutness, and speed. 

 It is sometimes argued that one type of Foxhound 

 is not enough, because different countries require 

 different Hounds. The validity of this maxim is 

 doubtful. In a sense it may be true that a coarse, 

 bulky, heavy - shouldered brute, who would be 

 ridden over in the first field in the Midlands, might 

 manage to hide his congenital defects and keep out 

 of the way of underbred horses in a cramped 

 country where small enclosures are fenced from 

 each other by impossible banks. But in truth 

 there is no country where a well-bred Hound of 

 the middle size, with good neck and shoulders, 

 will not hold his own with any other sort that has 

 yet been bred, besides being far more pleasing 

 to the eye. 



Let us try to describe him in a little more detail. 

 He stands not less than twenty-three, and not more 

 than twenty-four inches high. He has a lean head, 

 rather conical than flat, with a delicately chiselled 

 muzzle ; dark, full, luminous eyes, denoting keen- 

 ness and intelligence ; close-lying ears, small and 

 pointed. His long neck, with the line of the throat 

 quite clean, is supported by sloping shoulders, 

 at the foremost point of which his fore-legs are set 

 on, with knees near to the ground, plumb straight 

 whether viewed from the side or the front. His 

 feet are round without being fleshy, with the toes 



