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quarters, slender heads, small ears, and greater celerity of 
motion with a shriller and less musical note; but in the 
great prevalence of white, which, more or less pied and 
spotted with black and tan or yellow pie, is decidedly the 
prevalent color, at present, of all the favorite families even 
of the fast modern harrier, which is now little more than 
a small foxhound, though, perhaps, one shade less removed 
‘from the Southern hound. 
I am myself inclined to the belief that all the improved 
modern dogs have been produced rather by the careful 
selection, generation after generation, of the lightest, best 
formed, handsomest, and fleetest parents on both sides, 
than by crossing with dogs of different races and varie- 
ties. We know that such has been the case mainly with 
our improved breed of cattle and sheep, and I do not see 
why such should be overlooked, as a palpable method of | 
improving families of dogs. 
We know that, by constantly, year after year, breed- 
ing from the tallest 26-inch foxhounds out of 25 or 24- 
inch bitches, we have established a permanent family, 
known as staghounds or buckhounds, of which her Majes- 
ty’s pack at Windsor are the finest type. These must not 
be confounded with the Highland deerhound, which is a 
totally distinct animal, of which I shall treat hereafter. 
We know also that by raising stock in the same manner 
from the smallest and lightest foxhounds, which are draft- 
ed from regular packs owing to their want of symmetrical 
size, and physical endurance, we have built up a self- 
reproducing family of improved harriers. In the like 
manner—-since the formation, slowness, depth of voice, color, 
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