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the hounds good at fresh-finding and keeping 

 their otter going that do most towards bringing 

 the quarry to hand. At the end of a long day, too, 

 the cross-breds and foxhounds will return to 

 kennels with their sterns up, while many of the 

 rough sort exhibit a very depressed appearance. 

 They never seem to pick their feet up like a 

 foxhound, but shuffle about in an ungainly 

 fashion. When it comes to killing an otter, the 

 foxhound has it all his own way. Time and 

 again we have seen him seize and hold a big otter^ 

 often shaking his quarry like a fox. The rough 

 hound often fails in this respect, for he has not 

 the courage to make him a good seizer and killer. 

 A foxhound which comes to the otterhound 

 kennels with the reputation of being a good 

 marker nearly always keeps up his fame in the 

 same way when entered to otter. Good marking 

 hounds are the mainstay of any pack. As far 

 as brains are concerned, the foxhound appears to 

 make more use of his " grey matter '' than the 

 rough hound, and shows more initiatiye and 



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