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and blood are what should chiefly be attended 

 to. The late Mr. Meyncll, (the so long celebrated 

 master of the Quorndon hounds,) never cared 

 about the size of a hound ; the last time I was 

 at his kennel in Derbyshire, the dog hounds were 

 powerful, the bitches small, but very clever and 

 possessing plenty of bone. When I here say 

 small, I would have it understood that small in 

 height is meant ; for, as a very excellent sports- 

 man observes, when speaking of a hunter, "the 

 height of a horse. Sir, has nothing to do with 

 the size of him." 



A veteran sportsman, a friend of mine, well 

 known in the sporting world, who for many years 

 was intimate with the late Mr. Meynell, and who 

 hunted in Leicestershire nearly the whole of the 

 time that great fox-hunter kept his hounds there ; 

 and as no man now living, with the exception 

 of Mr. Lorrain Smith, can be better informed, 

 or give so correct an account of every thing that 

 relates to this inimitable sportsman, I have in- 

 serted, verbatim, a few anecdotes which my friend 

 has been so kind as to send me, thinking they 

 may be interesting to a young beginner. — He 

 commences his letter by informing me, that he 

 spent twenty years of the most pleasing appren- 

 ticeship to the late Mr. M. ; whom he speaks of 

 as the " Primate of Science," and declares his 



