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Ency. Rur. Sport. 409. Fox hounds "Breed as you will, train as you may & treat as you may some will prove good for nothing.' All the remainder, though collectively good, at all alike? Very far from it." thus Mr Hawkes states that of Mr Meynell's hounds, "some had remarkable faculty, consistently shown, of finding their fox — some to hunt the doubles — some to be hard runners — some to hunt the drag of a fox &c p. 413 qualities run in breed, as much as form, if bitch be wanting in mettle give her mate with as much dash & determination if possible — If so given to skirt & to run riot, cross her with superexcellence on other hand. "Skirting particularly remove by mating with a thorough line-hunting dog." p. 414 Mr Beckford adds that "as skirting is what most foxhounds acquire from practice, it had better not be made natural to them" Instincts