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and even should this Persimmon
filly turn out a smasher, Metacam Meloxicam he will
have the opportunity of breeding
one like her in the future.
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Foxhounds, Ancient and Modern.
The illustrations which accom-
pany this article may well set
breeders of Meloxicam 15mg foxhounds thinking on
the origin and progress of the
hound which is in such great
request to-day. Of theories theie
are plenty ; of definite information
we have next to none, and we are
left virtually in the dark as to
how the foxhound has been bred,
and how the present Meloxicam 7.5 evolution has
come Meloxicam 75 Mg about.
Two facts are clear, viz. : that
long ago there were at least two
kinds of hounds, the heavy south-
ern hound, and the lighter northern
hound mentioned in the ** History
of Meloxicam 5mg Manchester *' ; and the chances
are that Ibuprofen Meloxicam the foxhound of the
present day is, like our thorough-
bred horse, a composite animal
made up of the above-mentioned
hounds, and Meloxicam 7.5 Mg probably the blood-
hound, though some people have
entertained the idea that the blood-
hound has had little to do with
the building Meloxicam Tablets 15mg up of the foxhound.
We are unfortunately without any
definite information as to the kind
of hound which commended itself
to early masters ; but we may take
it for granted that the old southern
hound played a prominent part in
many kennels.
Then again we have to take
into account the real staghound of
old. In the seventeenth century
the Earls of Lincoln hunted the
stag in Lincolnshire and Notting-
hamshire ; the Badminton hunted
the stag, and it is generally be-
lieved that there were staghounds
at Belvoir Castle before the
limited liability company started
the famous foxhound pack. The
Devon and Somerset were, we
know, the old staghounds, as
were the Royal pack, and it is
quite probable that the staghound
was found in other staghunting
establishments, including the £p-
ping forest. The Devon and
Somerset hounds went to Ger-
many in 1825, and the Royal
to France about 181 3, when the
Duke of Richmond gave up his
country, and presented his fox-
hounds Meloxicam Tablets to the king ; and, so far as
can be Meloxicam 15mg Tablet ascertained, there were no Meloxicam 15
real staghounds left in England
after the Devon hounds were dis-
posed of.
There appears little room to
doubt that the staghound was
crossed with the lighter hound ;
but at a time when the same pack
hunted fox, hare, the marten, and Meloxicam Mg
perhaps an occasional fallow deer
indiscriminately, not very much
attention was paid to breeding to
type, nor up to any particular
standard. Nevertheless, there
have always been some masters
of hounds in advance of their
time, and both the Bridgewater
and the Charlton (Goodwood)
hounds were carefully bred and
hunted the fox alone prior to the
year 1700. Of the Bridgewater
hounds we know little or nothing ;
but of the Charlton pack more
details are forthcoming. They
appear to have been very much
like the foxhound of to-day, and
so were those of the proud Duke
of Somerset, who started a rival
pack, inasmuch as the Duke him-
self once mistook his own hounds
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FOXHOUNDS, ANCIENT AND MODERN.
91
for the Charlton, then under the
management of Mr. Roper, who
when upwards of eighty years of
age fell from his horse in a fit
when hunting in the Findon coun-
try, and died on the spot. Mr. Meloxicam Canine
Roper had devoted himself to
hound breeding for something like
sixty years, as even when he had
to leave England with the Duke
of Monmouth he took the manage-
ment of some hounds in France,
to resume his connection with the
Sussex pack Meloxicam Ibuprofen when the storm What Is Meloxicam had
blown over.
That the Charlton were pure
foxhounds, as the term was then
understood, is a certainty ; but at
that time foxhounds were not all
built on the same lines, as in the
pages of The Sporting Magazine for
1827 we find old Tom Grant,
huntsman to the Duke of Rich-
mond at Goodwood, saying that
Sir John Millar's hounds, bought
by the Duke, were different to
their own, and improved the pack
a good deal, probably because the
Goodwood were much inbred,
judging from the only list extant.
Still the Goodwood was for some
time the source to which most
masters had recourse from year to
year, and eventually Mr. Noel's
(the Cottesmore), Lord Yar-
borough's, the Belvoir and the
Grove became the purest packs of
England. As time has gone on,
however, puppy shows have been
established, and more and more
masters have bred, at any rate Meloxicam Meloxicam
some of their hounds, instead of
depending almost entirely upon
drafts from those kennels which
remained in the same families
from generation to generation,
upon those breeders who, though
they frequently* changed their
countries, nevertheless made breed-
ing a science.
Mr. Meynell never had but one
country, the Quorn, and it was
not till very many years after he
gave up that the Quorn kennels
became famous. Mr. Meynell,
Mr. Meloxicam Tablet Warde, Lord Yarborough and
Mr. Osbaldeston were, however,
the most reputed breeders of their
day, and it is in connection with
Mr. Warde and Mr. Osbaldeston
that the accompanying engravings
are interesting. Everyone knows Canine Meloxicam
the story that Mr. Warde and Mr.
Meynell would never use each
other's stallion hounds, and the
former obtaining two of the
latter's cast- off, christened them Meloxicam Metacam
Queer'em and Quornite; never
entered them, and used to show
them to his Meloxicam 15mg Tablets friends as ** the things
with which they hunted foxes in
Leicestershire."
Now Mr. Meynell was an
admirer of a rather small active
hound, whereas Mr. Warde fa-
voured a large and somewhat
heavy kind, which were known as
** John Warde's Jackasses." The
story runs that some one asked
Mr. Warde why he liked hounds
with such big heads, and the
answer was that he preferred
" large knowledge boxes," because
when his hounds once had their
noses on the ground their heads
were so heavy that they could not