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eye." Now, if you have any dashers or 

 flashers in your pack, they will lose your 

 fox for you " in the twinkling of an eye." 

 For my own part, I am never pleased with 

 a run, unless the hounds do their work well. 

 Were I to have some sporting friends 

 coming to see my hounds in the field, I 

 should prefer going away close at him for 

 twenty minutes, then a short check, to 

 bring the hounds to a hunting scent, and a 

 quick thing at last, and run into him, in 

 order that my friends might be convinced 

 the hounds could hunt as well as rim ; for 

 of this I am certain, if they cannot do both, 

 they merit not the name of fox-hounds. It 

 is a mistaken idea to suppose that a south- 

 ern hound, or any other species, has a 

 better nose than a fox-hound. I once had 

 some dogs to hunt hare, they consisted of 

 every description, — the rough tanned and 

 blue mottled harriers, and among them a 

 few fox-hounds from George Sharpe, his 



