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will never be better, but get worse and 

 worse every time he is taken out. A mute 

 hound, like a person dumb, never can be 

 cured ; on the other hand, it is very un- 

 pleasant to hear a hound speak too much 

 on a scent, or to find him " throwing 

 tongue to cry." One that " throws his 

 tongue " where the Fox has never been, like 

 a liar, is generally incorrigible. Hounds 

 ought never to speak but on a Fox scent, 

 and then we may depend upon then- 

 tongues as upon those of a Solon or an 

 Eldon. 



Perhaps one of the greatest miseries 

 attendant upon keeping Fox-hounds is the 

 Distemper ! Can any thing be more heart- 

 rending to a master of hoimds, than to have 

 a clever entry taken oiF a short time before 

 hunting ? And, what is very extraordinary, 

 no specific remedy for it, to my know- 

 ledge, has hitherto been found out. Ca- 

 lomel and emetics will sometimes do good ; 



