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THE HOUND. 



cut, will enable the reader to distinguish between 

 a perfect and a faulty hound. 



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A FAULTY HOUND. 



But to return to breeding the fox-hound. In 

 the breeding of some animals, beauty of shape is 

 often dependent on the caprice of fashion, or the 

 taste of the breeder ; but in the breeding of hounds 

 no such latitude can be given, for here beauty, or 

 symmetry of shape, is alone in reference to utility, 

 and adaptation of parts to the purposes to which 

 they are to be applied. Yet the breeder of fox- 

 hounds has one point further to go ; he must, as we 

 before remarked, guard against propensities^ which 

 run in the blood of these animals perhaps stronger 

 than their good qualities, and will sooner or later 

 break out in their work. In the election then of a 



