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Title: The foxhound of the twentieth century : the breeding and work of the kennels of England
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bradley, Cuthbert
Subjects: Foxhounds Fox hunting
Publisher: London : Routledge
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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of hunting as the noblest exercise, making menlaborious, active, and wise. When the necessityceased for landed proprietors to keep an armedtroop under their roof to protect their estates, thenthe dawn of the chase gave England a new interestin life, the commencement of a spell of peace andprosperity throughout the land. The pioneers of this great movement were theowners of ancestral acres who established packs ofhounds early in the eighteenth century, providingsport and recreation for their tenants and neighbours.Supplanting a brutal age of fighting, bull-baiting, andbarbarous amusements,—popular with the youth ofthe time, when in the spirit for excitement,—thenicer science of the chase became a school for pent-up-energies, encouraging valour, self-control, andresourcefulness in the hour of danger and difficulty. The evolution of the modern foxhound has PERIODS IN HUNTING HISTORY J 5 necessarily been a slow process, summed up in onesentence by the late Canon Kingsley when he says,
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Melody. the result of nature, not limited, but developedby high civilisation. Various breeds of huntingdog have been mentioned by early writers as theorigin from which the foxhound sprang, but one 16 THE FOXHOUND OF THE XXth CENTURY thing is perfectly certain, the pioneers took thebest material available, interbreeding to fix a type.Breeding as a science commenced during the firstquarter of the eighteenth century, when the Dukesof Beaufort and Rutland, the Earls of Fitzwilliam andYarborough established kennels, and to-day thosefour great packs are the purest source for hereditaryqualities in foxhound breeding. The modern fox-hound after two hundred years of skilful breedingand selection by sportsmen the most gifted of theirage, is the finest weapon of the chase when handledan by artist. The interests of no other animalhave been more jealously guarded, for it has alwaysbeen a golden rule to breed from working strains,and the foxhound has met the requirements of eachsuccessive age. The

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