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FOX-HOUND, FOREST, AND PRAIRIE, 



Lazars — the fences big and blind, and the plough as deep as 

 high farming and recent rains can make it. The local Marquis 

 of Carabas has added a second ditch to many fences that were 

 already quite wide enough for our requirements — and the said 

 new purchases are soon galloping about riderless in all directions. 



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Thus for five minutes ; and in ten more back to Gartree Hill, 

 where the throng on the h illside is shouting heartily, and the 

 " scarlet runner " hurrying down to meet the huntsman. " Was 

 his head towards the covert when you saw him, Pat ? " " Well, 

 not aperiently, Misther Firr," replied our well known Chief of 

 the Intelligence Department, scratching his own round nob 

 thoughtfully — and with this lucid information the huntsman 

 had to be content. In covert however, the latter got on to his 

 fox, or another ; and soon pushed him out for little Dalby. All 

 who have hunted here — weighing over ten stone — know pretty 

 well the sprightliness of cantering a fat horse up this picturesque 

 slope ; so I need not descant upon that. 



But it was a trifle light as air compared with the ascent of 



