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and the fastidious, the quarrelsome and the 

 kind, the light-hearted and the stout-hearted. 

 There are hounds that can drive, and hounds 

 that can stoop ; the ones that can draw, and 

 the ones that are handy to cast. There 

 are some that combine all these virtues, 

 and, alas ! others that are guilty at times 

 of babbling, riot, skirting, and turning a 

 deaf ear to the horn. The object of hunts- 

 men has never been to turn their packs 

 into mechanical fox-killers — to do so 

 would be to drag down the kennel to 

 the level of the steel trap and vulpicide's 

 gun. 



Much of the charm of huntino- consists in 

 the style, grace, and neatness in which it is 

 done. Hunting must be a pleasure to the 

 eye ; it should be picturesque and in harmony 



