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'' Well, if you can manage that I don't mind," 

 his lordship replied ; and there it ended for the 

 day. 



There is a little place called Bradden Pond, 

 with a growth of underwood round it. Thither 

 the fox was sent in the morning, with instructions 

 to the man in charge to sit on the bank and keep 

 the fox until he should hear the crack of a whip. 

 When the hounds left the village, and reached the 

 hill where there is a fine country before you, I 

 said, " My lord, I will just go and crack my whip 

 against the pond." 



" All right," he assented, '' that will save our 

 going down." 



I did so, and was shortly afterwards told by the 



man who had brought the fox that he had gone 



through the water and towards the other side. I 



was soon there, and he was as soon away. My 



hat was up, and the hounds came up very 



quickly ; it was good grass ; they set to with a 



will and raced away over the hill, leaving Caswell 



on the left. I noticed the best hound in the pack 



(Druid) behind, instead of driving his fox; in the 



next field he went up to the front, but when he felt 



the scent he stopped abruptly, and no more would 



he do ! The fox, not knowing the coverts, avoided 



them, and pointed for Gold Higham ; when parallel 



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