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country, puzzle it out for several hours, 
make a jump and then run it from ten 
to twenty hours—a feat I have seen 
performed scores of times by American 
hounds—would find himself hopelessly 
out of a job. 
I have upon more than one occasion 
in the “Blue Grass country” heard two 
and three different packs in the middle 
of the night, each one after a different 
fox, making music that would cause 
the blood to go galloping through one’s 
veins like a race horse. 
The large hounds cannot stand the 
heat, and the constant pounding on 
rough, rocky ground soon puts them 
upon crutches. If hounds were re- 
quired to take up a handicap or impost 
of fifteen or twenty pounds weight, 
then the English type of hounds would 
be strictly in it, but as nose, speed and 
endurance are the qualities necessary to 
successfully cope with our red fox, I 
fail to appreciate this extra weight 
Carrying capacity or see the necessity 
of having a hound whose weight of 
bone in shoulder and fore leg will out- 
weigh all of the bones in the frame of 
his quarry. 
In the matter of breeding true to a 
type we must yield the palm to the 
English. In the art and science of 
breeding they are not only the peers 
but the superiors of all other nations. 
As to hounds they have established a 
high standard of excellence as to size, 
symmetry, conformation and beauty of 
form and style, and breed for these 
qualities to the detriment of nose, 
speed, endurance and fox sense. While 
National Fox-hunters’ association, 
general average of excellence in Amer- 
is much greater than it 
was a decade ago. 
