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When I kept harriers, I bred up some of the 

 puppies at a distant kennel ; but having no 

 servants there to exercise them properly, I found 

 them much inferior to such of their brethren as 

 had the luck to survive the many difficulties and 

 dangers they had undergone at their walks : 

 these were afterwards equal to any thing, and 

 afraid of nothing ; whilst those that had been 

 nursed with so much care were weakly and 

 timid, and had every disadvantage attending 

 private education. 



I have often heard, as an excuse for hounds 

 not hunting a cold scent, that they were too high 

 bred. I confess, I know not what that means : 

 but this I know, that hounds are frequently too 

 ill bred to be of any service. It is judgment 

 in the breeder, and patience afterwards in the 

 huntsman, that make them hunt.* 



Young hounds are commonly named when 

 first put out, and sometimes indeed ridiculously 

 enough ; nor is it easy, when you breed many, 

 to find suitable or harmonious names for all ; 

 particularly, as it is usual to name all the whelps 

 of one litter with the same letter, which (to be 



* Hounds which I had thought stiff-nosed for many years, 

 I have seen hunt the coldest scent, when once the impati- 

 ence of youth had left them. 



