Cross country with horse and hound . at I refused five pounds for at the Royal Show ? That was nt the foxs fault. What can you expectwhen you dont properly lock up your cocks for the night ?Besides, I dont believe a fox killed your bird at all. Itmust have been a skunk or a weasel did it. My feedingthe cubs occasionally is only a safeguard against their steal-ing your chickens. Well, retorted madame, whom her husband in courtesy,like the sportsman he is, permitted to have the last word, if you rear foxes on the farm, I must grow the houndsto kill them. This brought the argument to a standstill
Cross country with horse and hound . at I refused five pounds for at the Royal Show ? That was nt the foxs fault. What can you expectwhen you dont properly lock up your cocks for the night ?Besides, I dont believe a fox killed your bird at all. Itmust have been a skunk or a weasel did it. My feedingthe cubs occasionally is only a safeguard against their steal-ing your chickens. Well, retorted madame, whom her husband in courtesy,like the sportsman he is, permitted to have the last word, if you rear foxes on the farm, I must grow the houndsto kill them. This brought the argument to a standstill, with honourseasy and neither party to the dispute perhaps essentiallydissatisfied. XIX SCENT ** To evry shrub the warm effluvia cling. Hang on the grass, impregnate earth and nostrils opning wide, oer hill, oer vigrous hounds pursue, with evry breathInhale the grateful steam; quick pleasures stingTheir tingling nerves, while they their thanks in triumphant melody confessThe titillating joy. SOMERVILLE. XIX SCENT SOME THEORIES COMPARED FONDNESS OF HOUNDS FOR THE TRAIL HOUND MUSIC AND A NOVICE JF all the vexed questions pertaining to thechase of vv^ild game, that of scent, thatweary, incomprehensible, uncontrollable phe-nomenon, consistent only in its inconsistency,aTjorocks puts it, is the most puzzling. I shall notattempt to enter into a full discussion of this most interest-ing problem, but content myself v^^ith stating a few well-established facts, and leave the reader to work out the riddleas best he can. It will be found a good subject to occupyhis mind during a long ride home. But I give him fairwarning that the hypothesis he sets up to-day to his entiresatisfaction is likely to fall like a card house at the verynext run or before the attack of some one who is furtheralong in the study. I believe, however, all theorists sooner or later come toacknowledge that certain conditions of the atmosphereseem to favour the lasting qualities of the sce
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