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experience I may have gained in the kennel 

 and the field enables me. 



In the first place, I should recommend 

 you to purchase, if possible, a well-bred, 

 established Pack of Fox-hounds; and it 

 frequently happens that Messrs. Tattersall 

 have one to dispose of in the spring. The 

 forming such a pack from draughts is by no 

 means an easy task ; it requires considerable 

 judgment, with long experience ; and you 

 will find great difficulty in procuring even 

 a few Hounds to start with that are not 

 either vicious or worn out : it is very cer- 

 tain, no Master of Hounds will part with 

 one which is useful and steady. Hunts- 

 men will humbug if they can about their 

 draughts, but I have very rarely known a 

 draught entered Hound good for much. 



Hounds have always been much under- 

 valued : we sometimes hear of eight hun- 

 dred, or even a thousand guineas, as the 

 price of a Hunter, and the sum of three or 



