188 SELECTION OF YOUNG HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



How to select young Hounds. — The great Criterion of judi- 

 cious Breeding. — Necessity for rounding the Ears of Fox- 

 hounds. — Eules to be observed in selecting Drafts. — Mr. 

 Warde's Hounds. — Cub-hunting, and one of its necessary 

 consequences.— Pursuing the Buck under the Eye of 

 Diana. — Nothing New under the Sun. 



The two first considerations which should in- 

 fluence every Master of Pox-hounds in selecting his 

 draft when the young hounds return to kennel, 

 are the fineness of nose and the stoutness of their 

 parents ; in fact, the best bred would claim my 

 attention before the best looking, supposing, of 

 course, that the former possessed the requisites of 

 good legs and feet, with powerful frames to stand 

 wear and tear. The progeny of untried mothers, 

 that is, their first litter, however handsome, should 

 be viewed rather with suspicion than with that favour 

 which is too generally bestowed on good looks. 



