und, (23) it should not be simply tawny,
nor absolutely black or white, which is not a sign of breeding, but
monotonous--a simplicity suggestive of the wild animal. (24) Accordingly
the red dog should show a bloom of white hair about the muzzle, and
so should the black, the white commonly showing red. On the top of the
thigh the hair should be straight and thick, as also on the loins and on
the lower portion of the stern, but of a moderate thickness only on the
upper parts.

(23) See Stonehenge, p. 25; Darwin, op. cit. ii. 109.

(24) But see Pollux, ib. 65, who apparently read {gennaion touto to
aploun alla therides}; al. Arrian, vi. See Jaques de Fouilloux,
"La Venerie" (ap. E. Talbot, "Oeuvres completes de Xenophon,"
traduction, ii. 318).

There is a good deal to be said for taking your hounds frequently into
the mountains; not so much for taking them on to cultivated land. (25)
And for this reason: the fells offer facilities for hunting and for
following the quarry without interruption, while cultivated land, owing
to the number of cross roads and beaten paths, presents opportunities
for neither. Moreover, quite apart from finding a hare, it is an
excellent thing to take your dogs on to rough ground. It is there they
will become sound of foot, and in general the benefit to their physique
in working over such ground will amply repay you. (26)

(25) Or, "pretty often, and less frequently over."

(26) Lit. "they must be benefited in their bodies generally by working
over such ground."

They should be taken out in summer till mid-day; in winter from sunrise
to sundown; in autumn any time except mid-day; and in spring any time
before evening. These times will hit the mean of temperature. (27)

(27) Or, "You may count on a moderate temperature at these times."

V

The tracks of hares are long in winter owing to the length of night, and
short for the opposite reason during summer. In winter, however, their
scent does not lie in early morning, when the rime is on the ground, or
earth is frozen. (1) The fact is, hoar frost by its own inherent force
absorbs its heat, whilst black frost freezes it. (2)

(1) Or, "when there is hoar frost or black frost" (lit. "ice").

(2) Or, "the ice congeals them," "encases as it were in itself the
heat," i.e. the warm scent; aliter, "causes the tracks to freeze
at the top."

The hounds, moreover, with their noses nipped by the cold, (3) cannot