THE STAGIIOUND. 



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Illciir I.U'E. FUIJM A 1'AIXTINO BY SIR EDWIN LASDSEEH, K.A. (liV I'EU.MISSION OF MlisSUS. UUAVES.) 



As a proof that neither the Greeks nor the Romans had any idea of such packs of hounds as wo have 

 at present, we have only to consider Ovid's description of the .death of Acticon, and we shall lie convinced 

 that his hounds were a mixture of dogs, with very different qualities and characters in scent, sight, velocity, 



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