The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . CHAPTER II For hounds of middle size, active and strong, Will better answer all thy various ends. And crown thy pleasing labours with success. SoMERVILE. Description of Hound adapted to Hertfordshire—Good and bad Luck— Opinion as to the Size of a Hound—Mr. Barnett and the Cam-bridgeshire—Fast Hounds and quick Hounds—Lord Segraves Blood—Draftfrom his Kennel—Hon. G. Berkley and his Hounds—Size of Hounds bestfor Herts—Arch
The noble science : a few general ideas on fox-hunting, for the use of the rising generation of sportsmen, and more especially those of the Hertfordshire hunt club . CHAPTER II For hounds of middle size, active and strong, Will better answer all thy various ends. And crown thy pleasing labours with success. SoMERVILE. Description of Hound adapted to Hertfordshire—Good and bad Luck— Opinion as to the Size of a Hound—Mr. Barnett and the Cam-bridgeshire—Fast Hounds and quick Hounds—Lord Segraves Blood—Draftfrom his Kennel—Hon. G. Berkley and his Hounds—Size of Hounds bestfor Herts—Arched Loins, or wheeled Backs—Purity of Blood to be pre-ferred to any Cross—Mr. Smiths Cross with the Bloodhound—Shape ofHounds—their height. It would be the height of presumption in me, were Ito make any attempt at offering any dogmas upon thesystem of kennel. I write, not for the information ofthe learned, but for the amusement of the uninitiated in D 18 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. these mysteries. It is not my purpose to make anycompilation of practical details upon the treatment ofhounds, nor even to retail any of the thousand and oneinfalHb
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