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CHAPTER XX. 



THE EARL OF YARBOROUGH'S HOUNDS AND 

 COUNTRY. 



Lincolnshire is essentially the land of the 

 foxhound. There are properties and condi- 

 tions connected with localities which are 

 particularly suitable to the habits and consti- 

 tutions of various kinds of animals, conducive 

 to the production of them in the full vigour 

 of health, and the realisation of their most 

 valuable qualities. It is scarcely necessary 

 to illustrate this with a multitude of examples, 

 so prominently are they placed before us 

 in the numerous varieties of sheep and 

 cattle. Every tyro in agricultural pursuits 

 is thoroughly apprised of the results that 

 would follow, in a very few generations, the 

 removal of sheep identified with a vale to 

 the rarefied atmosphere and the rude incle- 

 ment blasts of the mountains ; or, reversing 



