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ledge of and confidence in his hounds a-t the outset. 

 It combined all the requirements I have laid down as 

 necessary to a good run. The Master of course must 

 regret the absence of blood, but the season (his last, 

 by the way) was all but over, and hounds had had 

 blood enough. 



The Lifeguardsman, after congratulating the Master 

 on so good a run, started for his home, now many miles 

 away ; we five also mounted and moved off. Before 

 we had jogged a mile we met the field, who of course 

 at once commenced to depreciate the run, which, never- 

 theless, is fixed in my memory as " the best I ever 

 saw." 



