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is an essential study for masters of hounds and 

 huntsmen to enable them to breed hounds 

 successfully, and having bred them to form 

 their entries. There are unmistakable expres- 

 sions of countenance which indisputably 

 denote intellect, and there are, too, associa- 

 tions of forms corporal, which in connection 

 with the features of the head and face, 

 operate, so to speak, in unison, to render a 

 foxhound capable of transmitting his good 

 properties to his descendants. The happy 

 combinations do not exist in a coarse, vulgar 

 hound any more than they do in the roughest 

 specimens of the human race. The invaluable 

 perfection of nose, as it is termed, I take it 

 consists in exquisite sensibility of the olfactory 

 system, with a quickness of perception to 

 carry that power into effect, for without the 

 last-named property a foxhound is of very 

 little value. A hound may be gifted with 

 very low scenting powers without possessing 

 energy to drive and make the best use of his 

 time. When good qualities have been culti- 

 vated through many generations, the animal 

 enjoying them is the more to be relied upon 

 as being most likely to transmit them. 



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