The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing . tions to this rule, as someof the best hounds England ever saw have beenthroaty ; and although we are aware that one in-dividual instance will prove neither the rule nor itsexception, we can go as far back as to Mr. Mey-nelFs famous stallion hound Gusman, for as throaty,and yet as good a fox-hound as we ever rememberto have seen. We agree with Beckford, that the tail,* now called stern, of a hound, should be thick, and moderately brushy; and if wellcar
The horse and the hound : their various uses and treatment, including practical illustrations in horsemanship and a treatise on horse-dealing . tions to this rule, as someof the best hounds England ever saw have beenthroaty ; and although we are aware that one in-dividual instance will prove neither the rule nor itsexception, we can go as far back as to Mr. Mey-nelFs famous stallion hound Gusman, for as throaty,and yet as good a fox-hound as we ever rememberto have seen. We agree with Beckford, that the tail,* now called stern, of a hound, should be thick, and moderately brushy; and if wellcarried, it is a great ornament to a there is one part of it which the master of apack likes to see nearly deprived of its covering,and that is its tip, which, when in that state, is aninfallible proof of a hound being a good, and not aslack, drawer of covers. As a perfect model we re-fer to the portrait of Nosegay, a hound belongingto the Earl of Kintore. A comparison of this hand-some animal, with that which we subjoin in a wood- ; THE HOUND. cut, will enable the reader to distinguish betweena perfect and a faulty \ \ A FAULTY HOUND. But to return to breeding the fox-hound. Inthe breeding of some animals, beauty of shape isoften dependent on the caprice of fashion, or thetaste of the breeder; but in the breeding of houndsno such latitude can be given, for here beauty, orsymmetry of shape, is alone in reference to utility,and adaptation of parts to the purposes to whichthey are to be applied. Yet the breeder of fox-hounds has one point further to go ; he must, as webefore remarked, guard against propensities^ whichrun in the blood of these animals perhaps strongerthan their good qualities, and will sooner or laterbreak out in their work. In the election then of a SYMMETRY OF THE FOX-HOUND. 385 dog for a bitch, or a bitch for a dog, these mattersmust be attentively considered ; and no man shouldbreed from hounds of either sex that come underany of the fol
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