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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: xiii. 6.
[12] Lit. "a weak, thinly-haired animal is incapable of severe toil."
[13] Or, "Nor will courage compensate for unsound feet. The toil and
moil will be too great to endure, and owing to the pains in his
feet he will in the end give in."
Similarly many different modes of hunting a line of scent are to be
seen in the same species of hound.[14] One dog as soon as he has found
the trail will go along without sign or symptom to show that he is on
the scent; another will vibrate his ears only and keep his tail[15]
perfectly still; while a third has just the opposite propensity: he
will keep his ears still and wag with the tip of his tail. Others draw
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