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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: the pack go on ahead, but keeping them back with nonsensical clamour.
Others will wilfully hug every false scent,[20] and with a tremendous
display of eagerness, whatever they chance upon, will take the lead,
conscious all the while they are playing false;[21] whilst another
sort again will behave in a precisely similar style out of sheer
ignorance.[22] It is a poor sort of hound which will not leave a stale
line[23] for want of recognising the true trail. So, too, a hound that
cannot distinguish the trail leading to a hare's form, and scampers
over that of a running hare, hot haste, is no thoroughbred.[24]
[20] Al. "seem to take pleasure in fondling every lie."
[21] Or, "fully aware themselves that the whole thing is a make-
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