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foulmart. Their nose is nearly equal to the Lanca- 

 shire hound, who are unrivalled in this respect, and 

 never disposed to be - tonguy. The bloodhound 

 cross also makes them more savage in their worry, 

 but they are often very unpleasant to manage in 

 kennel. Mr. Hill has found the foxhound fail in 

 working up to his otter in a cold drag, but excellent 

 on the line when the game is fairly started. With 

 him the southern hound has only failed from lack 

 of constitution, which is injured by too much 

 swimming. 



The Murray field terriers are descended from the 

 pure Welsh breed of Mr. Ramsay Williams, vdio lived 

 near Carnarvon. He died eight years since, and his 

 hunting journal testifies to a most wondrous medley 

 of sport with fox, otter, marten, foulmart, and hedge- 

 hog. For twenty-five years did Mr. Hill long for 

 his terriers, but never succeeded in getting any 

 until the old man^s death. They weigh about 151bs., 

 and have no cross of the bull- dog in them ; their 

 length of leg enables them to scramble out of 

 any rocky cairn, where a fox can climb ; and they 

 are always bred as flatsided as possible, so as to 

 squeeze into the smallest compass. To looks they 

 have no pretensions, but they stick to the water 

 most resolutely, and one of the best of them died 

 last October, after swimming an otter for hours on 

 the Lyne, near Drochil Castle, in Peebleshire. She 

 sternly refused to leave it, and foiled every effort 

 to get at her, till she sank fairly frozen by cold. 



