98 HUNTING THE FOX 



the moderate ones, so as to give him every chance ; 

 if these bitches are themselves got by a foreign 

 sire, so much the better, because any dog puppies 

 from them, provided they grow into stalHon hounds, 

 will be far enough away in blood to be mated with 

 most of the bitches at home. One or two lucky 

 hits made on these lines every second or third 

 year will keep a pack together, and confirm the 

 type far better than any number of experiments 

 in first-class looks with third-class pedigrees. 



