The new book of the dog - a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment (1911) (14577140658)

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Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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LADY GIFFORDS DESPERATE ANDKENNEL MATES. spring into the air, leaving a good space ofground untouched. This seems to be in-tense cunning on her part, and has perforcethe result she evidently means it to have,viz. scent failing, and hounds completelybaffled for the time. And here is anothermysterious thing about scent : you cometo a gateway, or possibly a place where twoways meet; you make up your mind, whenyou see hounds stop suddenly and throwup their heads, that the hare has gone on. 226 THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. You try them on. Not a hound will ownto the line. The only thing to be done,after you have tried north, south, east,and west of it, is to wait a few moments,filling up your time by making a big cast,making the Field stand in one place asquietly as they can (they will generally talk,and take off the hounds attention if possible).You try the place again where they originallychecked, and nine times out of ten the
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A MORNING VISIT. LADY GIFFORDS OLD PARK PACK OF HARRIERS. hounds will run on with a burst ofmusic. Why ? You know that in all prob-ability this will happen, but has anyoneever been able satisfactorily to explainto you the reason ? There are days in a huntsmans life wheneverything seems to go right, when houndslook to him for help, he gives it, never makinga mistake—he casts them just right, and ifhe lifts hounds they hit it off exactly, and hebegins to think he understands scent ; hehas been years at his work and certainknowledge is coming to him at last ! It isall going to be plain sailing henceforth.Is it ? Alas, next hunting-day things donot go so easily, and he has to own thatscent is still a mystery, and always will be.Would the fascination of hunting be of theabsorbing interest it always has been— and still is—if the mystery of scent weremade clear ? I venture to think not. Harriers have a more difficult task, takeit all round, than Foxhounds; the reasonbeing that a hare e