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with as many as twelve couple, I do not think 

 they ever showed the sport the lesser number did, 

 as they got in one another's way and were much 

 more apt to divide. An important point to decide 

 is that of pace, and you will naturally draft those 

 dogs that are either too fast or too slow for your 

 purpose. A good cry is as necessary for terriers 

 as for hounds, as it keeps the pack together, and 

 is, moreover, delightful to listen to. I remember 

 seven couple of my terriers starting with a hare 

 from Woodrow Farm and running the whole 

 length of Plumly Wood, a covert of some eighty 

 or ninety acres. On reaching the lane that runs 

 down to Purse Caundle the hare came upon a 

 brewer's dray, and the man shouting at her, 

 she turned sharp, and giving the little pack a 

 view they raced her the whole way back, this time 

 going outside the covert, and they ran into her in 

 the field in which they had found her, every terrier 

 up. A very fast dog named Arno led the whole 

 way, and as he threw his tongue freely he kept 

 them together. 



Redcap was a dog that would carry a line for 

 miles, and more than once he travelled so far from 

 home that he was given up for lost. One morning 

 when I went down to my poultry-house, I had 

 Redcap and a collie puppy with me, and to my dis- 

 may I found dead hens scattered about all over 

 the yard. As I came up a large fox bounded out 

 of the cart-shed and made off, with Redcap and 

 the collie at his heels. The latter soon returned. 



