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OLD ENGLISH HOUND. 
expended on a single pack, A pack of lionnds sometimes costs two thousand guineas in tlie first 
purchase, and that sum has even been paid for ten couples of a favorite breed. Often several 
packs are united in the hunt. The fox is run down, it being esteemed a mean and unworthy act 
to shoot one of these animals. The fox is indeed considered as designed for the sport of the 
gentry, and to dispose of it in any other manner than for their pleasure is an offense against good 
society. Every thing that experience, money, and skill can suggest to give dignity and zest to 
this sport, is employed. Books are written upon every branch of the subject. Magazines are 
devoted to it ; men are brought up and carefully trained in the profession of breeding and break- 
ing horses and dogs for the chase. There are dog-breeders, dog-trainers, dog-physicians, dog- 
surgeons, dog-architects, and each is honored in his way, Nay, ^ve are told by a celebrated writer 
on field-sports, that the hunter himself should be carefully disciplined — as if the fox-chase were 
the great end of life, " A huntsman," says Beckford, " should be attached to the sport, and 
indefatigable, young, strong, active, bold, and enterprising in the pursuit of it. He should be 
sensible, good-tempered, sober, exact, and cleanly — a good groom and an excellent horseman. 
His voice should be strong and clear, with an eye so quick as to perceive which of his hounds 
carries the scent when all are running, and an ear so excellent as to distinguish the leading 
hounds when he does not see them. He should be quiet, patient, and without conceit. Such 
are the qualities which constitute perfection in a huntsman. He should not, however, be too 
fond of displaying them until called forth by necessity ; it being a peculiar and distinguished 
trait in his character to let his hounds alone while they thus hunt, and have genius to assist them 
when thev cannot." 
In illustration of the extent to which sporting is carried on in England, we may state that the 
dog-kennel of the Duke of Richmond cost thirtv thousand dollars. Youatt tells us Avitli an 
evident feeling of admiration, that in its construction the duke was his own architect, assisted 
T3y, and under the guidance of, Mr. Wyatt, " He dug his own flints, burned his owm lime, and cou- 
.ducted the wood-work in his own shops. This dog-kennel is a grand object when viewed from 
■Goodwood. The front is handsome, the ground well raised about it, and the general effect good ; 
the open court in the center adds materially to the noble appearance of the building. The en- 
trance to the kennel is delineated in the center with a flight of stairs leading above. The 
huntsmen's rooms, four in number, first present themselves ; each of them is fifteen feet four 
inches, by fourteen feet six inches. At each end of the side toward the court is one of the feed- 
ing-rooms, twenty-nine feet by fourteen feet four inches, and nobly-constructed rooms they are. 
At the back: of the feeding-rooms are one set of the lodging-rooms, from thirty-five feet six 
