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excellence of the Driveandash — a pack which has few 

 superiors, if any ; and when they are so advertised 

 to meet it is, therefore, not surprising that great 

 should be the influx from all sides of distinguished 

 and hard-riding strangers. "The Fox and Hounds" 

 is as unostentatious a little wayside inn as you would 

 be likely to meet with in a day's travels ; but on these 

 occasions I question if either mine host or hostess, 

 or indeed either of their fair and dimpled daughters, 

 would exchange his or her individual lot for that of 

 even Royalty itself. The ostler, too, has indeed a 

 high time of it ; for a meet there is a gala day to him, 

 and his smiling countenance plainly testifies that his 

 perquisites are in amount as satisfactory to himself 

 as they are incalculable by the writer. How justly 

 proud, too, is the worthy landlord, Mr. Potts, of the 

 puppy he is now walking, and how pleased are the 

 inmates of the old inn to find that Rosamond and 

 Trimbush, who, too, passed their puppyhood there, 

 have not forgotten their former home and friends. 

 It is of no use for Ned and Will, the whips, to ''rate" 

 them, for trot down the sanded passage they will to 

 receive a biscuit and caress from the old landlady, 

 let the consequences be what they may. They are 

 not doomed to be serious ones, however, and, having 

 rejoined their companions, it is amusing enough to 

 watch the enquiring glances and busy sterns of the 



