This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...to any such present-day supposition, our practical readers may confidently be referred to Lord Saltoun's experience (given in a previous chapter) that "a 31-inch height" went along with firstrate efficiency on the hill; and to Mr Menzies of Chesthill, who, in stalking with dogs at least as large, " ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...to any such present-day supposition, our practical readers may confidently be referred to Lord Saltoun's experience (given in a previous chapter) that "a 31-inch height" went along with firstrate efficiency on the hill; and to Mr Menzies of Chesthill, who, in stalking with dogs at least as large, " never saw better, although he had seen bigger ones" do well; also to other like cases cited throughout. True, general forest precedent would doubtless tend against size, along with its cognate points of speed and courage, under 1 See especially Colonel Hamilton Smith's two masterly volumes; also Martin (Knight's Weekly Volume Series). preference for mere use in "beating," tracking, "baying," and retrieving at large, as quite subordinate to that brilliant marksmanship which the new Express rifle facilitates. But from innumerable circumstances already adduced, no one can fail to see that a much wider and more exciting field has opened abroad, where the very opposite becomes growingly the case; while, moreover, in order to meet its full demand, there are at any rate numerous English homebreeders who can and will produce what is here indicated as the chief appliance required to make foreign wild sport enjoyable to the full. Under the wider zoological aspect now in view, a strong argument would thus appear to come up, on the side of those who controvert the long-entertained hypothesis that this dog is originally of wolf origin. Other objections apart, the wolf, like the hyena, stands disproportionately high at shoulder, and even then does he seldom attain an average of from 27 to 29 inches in height, his ordinary "running weight" being from about 60 or 70 to 80 or 90 lb., though one monster of 110...
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