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shoulders, but deficient in his understanding. 

 About the same time we noticed a hound named 

 Saffron, in the old Warwickshire pack, which has 

 held a place in our memory ever since, being one 

 of the most powerful our eyes have rested upon. 

 Saffron, however, was not quite the fashion as to 

 appearances, having a square head, rather short 

 neck, and not very oblique shoulders, capital fore- 

 legs, with plenty of bone, big chest, and muscular 

 loins and hind-quarters. There were also two 

 daughters of his presented to our view, exceedingly 

 handsome, attractive young ladies, with better fore- 

 hands than their sire, to one of which the first 

 prize had been awarded by Jem Hills, a 

 judge ; and several of his descendants are still 

 to be seen in the Badminton and other kennels 

 of repute. 



The tape has been pooh-poohed as rather an 

 unsportsmanlike way of testing the powers 

 of a foxhound ; but in our opinion no satis- 

 factory conclusion can be formed without its 

 assistance, when making comparison one with 

 the other. 



A quick eye will detect at a glance any imper- 

 fection in the shape or make of limbs and body, 

 but the tape gives at once the dimensions behind 

 the shoulders, where the chief strength of a hound 

 lies; and it will be found that, as a general rule, 

 this measurement is just four times as great as that 

 of the arm. If the arm measures seven inches, 

 the body will be twenty-eight. In deciding be- 



