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" Brainworn," not only at short distances, 

 but over the " Beacon Course." Shape and 

 blood are what should chiefly be attended 

 to. The late Mr. Meynell, (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 sportsman 

 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 



