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present or past time, when a fox is first found on a 

 fair scenting day, or afterwards in full chase, when 

 the scent will admit of it ; and we quite agree 

 with " Dryasdust/' that this should be attended to 

 in breeding foxhounds as well as other qualifica- 

 tions, which could easily be effected by putting 

 dams of light tongues to sires of deep or heavy 

 ones ; we don't mean noisy hounds. 



A short time since we heard of a curious mode 

 adopted by a master of harriers to convert his 

 currant-jelly dogs into foxhounds, and coming from 

 an authentic source, we have every confidence in its 

 truthfulness. Hares being more scarce than foxes 

 in that part of the principality, it was resolved and 

 carried unanimously by the members of the hunt, 

 to fly, or have a fling, at the more fashionable pur- 

 suit, and it being then late in the season, and no 

 time to be lost in blooding the pack to their new 

 game, a fox was trapped, killed, and skinned, ready 

 for eating the naked carcase d ragged across country 

 "by a man on foot, and the hounds laid on the scent 

 of it. Whether with that of aniseed or other 

 odoriferous oil anointed, whether stuffed with sage 

 and onions to impart a higher flavour, or peppered 

 and salted, our deponent sayeth not, but the drag 

 proved sufficiently enticing, and the pack went at it 

 furiously, to the great delight of the master and his 

 supporters, for some two or three miles, until they 

 overtook the aforesaid carcase thrown down upon 

 the ground ; while; the dragsman, becoming alarmed 

 at the great outcry in his rear, had quitted terra 

 jfirma for a more secure position in a tree. On the 



