3o8 THE HOUND. 



occult expenses attending them, which none but 

 masters of hounds are aware of. It is, however, a 

 notorious fact, that the produce of some stallion 

 hounds, if they have a fair chance by the bitch, 

 seldom fail in turning out well ; and perhaps the 

 most signal instance of '' like begetting like"' in 

 this species of animal, is that of Mr. Osbaldeston's 

 Furrier having been the sire of an entire pack in 

 that gentleman's kennel when he hunted the Quorn- 

 don country in Leicestershire, which he would oc- 

 casionally take to the field, amounting to more 

 than thirty-five couples, although, as may be sup- 

 posed, they were generally mingled with the rest 

 of his kennel, which at that period contained a 

 hundred couples of hounds. These Furrier hounds 

 gave little trouble in the entering of them, and 

 proved very true line-hunters, and every thing that 

 fox-hounds should be. The annals of fox-hunting 

 likewise record similar instances of the peculiar 

 properties of stallion hounds transmitting their vir- 

 tues to many succeeding generations, especially in 

 tLs instances of the Pychley Abelard, the Beau- 

 fort, and the JSew Forest Justice, Mr. Ward's 

 Senator, Mr. MeynelFs Gusman, Mr. Musters's 

 Collier, Mr. Corbet's Trojan, Lord Yarborough's 

 Ranter, with many others of more recent days, but 

 too numerous to mention here. 



Standard of Height. — The size, or, we should 

 rather say, the height, of a fox-hound, is a point 

 upon which there has been much difference of opi- 

 nion. The long-established pack of the late Mr. 



