. The foxhound of the twentieth century : the breeding and work of the kennels of England . walk a foxhound puppy duringthe first year of his existence ; in practice it isa most heartrending affair. Yet it is absolutelynecessary for the future and making of a foxhoundthat the puppy should be sent from the kennel inwhich he was whelped, for a years run at a homewhere he can have plenty of room and liberty todevelop frame and instincts. In the character anddisposition of foxhound puppies and boys—andwe speak from experience, having walked a coupleat a time of each species—there is a strikingsimi
. The foxhound of the twentieth century : the breeding and work of the kennels of England . walk a foxhound puppy duringthe first year of his existence ; in practice it isa most heartrending affair. Yet it is absolutelynecessary for the future and making of a foxhoundthat the puppy should be sent from the kennel inwhich he was whelped, for a years run at a homewhere he can have plenty of room and liberty todevelop frame and instincts. In the character anddisposition of foxhound puppies and boys—andwe speak from experience, having walked a coupleat a time of each species—there is a strikingsimilarity which prompted the great writer, Foster, 2 THE FOXHOUND OF THE XXth CENTURY to say, I never saw so much essence of devil putin so small a space. The advantage of being well born and getting agood start in life are apparent to everybody, andDame Fortune in the case of the foxhound puppyarranges all this by insuring a faultless pedigreeand proportions of outline. Character a foxhoundpuppy is credited with inheriting from his dam,make and shape from his sire, and when the union. Essence of devil in a small space. has been planned on experienced scientific lines,with blood relationship blending on both sides, the child of promise may combine those cardinalvirtues which distinguished ancestral foxhounds ofa century ago. There is hardly a puppy to-dayin whose veins does not lurk the blood of some orall of the great foxhounds of the past, for the raceis one great family, very closely bred, branchingout into different clans but never getting very faraway from the parent tree. The difficulty nowa-days would, we suppose, be to find whelps that arenot in direct descent from Mr J. Corbets Trojan of THE PUPPY WALKERS 3 1783, the first hero of foxhound worship ; SquireOsbaldestons Furrier of 1821, for the line of thelittle black and white dog comes into all the greatpedigrees ; or Belvoir Weathergage (1876), the ac-knowledged bed-rock of all modern day excellencein foxhound breedi
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