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you shall have the best horse, and I hope you will raise your courage 

 and do justice to him ; he will carry you through the country well 

 up to the hounds." We then took another glass or two of wine, 

 and agreed it should be so, and went to bed in high spirits for the 

 chase the next day. The next morning, up, breakfast and all right, 

 morning beautifiil, and the meeting place at Mount Pleasant ; my 

 friend was all alive. "Come Charley," said he, "on with your 

 spurs ; let us get there in good time, as you have never seen a pack 

 of fox hounds meet. I wish you to see everything to-day. " " Bring 

 the horses out Dick." We mounted, and off we started for Mount 

 Pleasant ; distance, five miles. " All in good time Charley, we will 

 take it easy." We had not gone far before we overtook the hounds. 

 My friend seemed to know every person we came near, and every one 

 seemed to know him. "Well, Harry," said he to the huntsman, 

 " what, you have got the lady pack to-day." " Yes, sir," replied 

 the huntsman, "the hounds are in beautiful trim," and, added 

 Harry, they are "pretty well up to the mark. 1 think they only 

 want to find a good one, and they will show you the way." This 

 lady pack amused me very much, for there were two whippers-in ; 

 and every now and then a hound was inclined to stray away from 

 the others, and they were sharply rated by one of these whips, and 

 called by their names, such as Ladybird, Laundress, Adelaide, 

 Abigirl, Winifred, Rosamond, Eachel, Gertrude, Ganymede, &:c. 

 They might well be called the lady pack, for their beautiful, yet 

 different colours, their neatly turned shapes and the graceful manner 

 in which they moved about ; indeed their pride seemed as if the 

 ground was scarcely good enough for them to go on. I could not 

 but admire them — I was delighted to see them. We were now 

 arrived at the meeting place. Mount Pleasant. Here it was pleasing 

 to see the sportsmen coming in all directions, and the gentlemen 

 with their top boots, white buckskin breeches and scarlet coats ; as 

 neat as if they had come out of a bandbox and their steeds equally 

 neat. About 100 were now at the "meet," the huntsman then 

 moved on by order of the master of the hounds to draw the covert 

 at the side hill, about half a mile distant. The hounds were taken 

 steadily to the covert, and by some signal, which I could not per- 

 ceive they in an instant all dashed in. The huntsman immediately 

 leaped the fence with them, and the two whips cantered off to 

 different stations ; each seemed to know the route. The huntsman 

 began to cheer his hounds by " Yoak, yoak, drag him, yoak, wind 

 him." They had been in covert but a short time, before one of the 

 hounds began to whimper, "Yoak, drag him my good bitch, he is 

 not far off, I warrant it," said the huntsman. Very shortly after 

 another hound chirupped louder, " hoike to Barmaid, have at him 

 old bitch, that will do ; elewhoyke, elewhoyke, have at him my good 

 hounds," continued he, with a rattling twang from the horn. The 

 hounds now soon got together and began to make the covert echo. 

 The fox made his appearance at one side of -the covert, but was 

 headed by the horsemen. He then ringed the covert and the hunts- 

 man halloaed ' ' stand away gentlemen ; clear away ; don't you see 

 the fox making the same point again. Get away that gentleman on 



