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liim, '' If two or tliree can limit a low scent, 

 why not have a whole pack to do so ?" ^' But 

 how can such a pack be got ?" said Long. 

 Mr. Smith replied, '^By breeding only from 

 hounds that can hunt a cold scent; you'll 

 then often have a fair day's sport, when other 

 packs can do nothing; and in a short time 

 you'll have beauty as well as nose." The 

 Duke then proposed to cross with the blood- 

 hound, but was told by his visitor that it 

 would not answer. He himself had crossed 

 with Lord Ailesbury's famed bloodhound "Wis- 

 dom; and even the third cross did not do. 

 Although they had nose and deeper tongue, 

 they never tried to be at head during a run, 

 and they followed over at fences, so that they 

 would be ridden over; in fact^ they had not 

 the dash of the fox-hound. This was an 

 opinion that he had long before expressed to 

 Lord Fitzhardinge, who quite agreed with him. 

 Mr. Smith had two or thi-ee good runs with 

 the Berkeley pack; and he was much better 



