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Muzzling Order, which condemns all Lyndhurst dogs to go 

 about with their unhappy heads in cages — but that, while the 

 buck was being sought out and separated by the tufters, the 

 body of the pack should be led in hand, at convenient distance 

 — instead of being shut up in barn or stable as on Exmoor. 

 Huntsman, whip, and attendants, accordingly, each carried a 

 strap with steel catches. 



At the meet, or with hounds soon afterwards, were, among 

 others — Lord Londesborough, Lord Raincliffe, Miss Denison, 

 Mr. Bradburne, Hon. G. Lascelles, Misses Meyrick, Miss Stan- 

 dish, Captain and Miss Kinglake, Hon. R. C. Trollope and Mrs. 

 Trollope, Mr. and Mrs. Tabernacle, Col. Powell, Miss Gilchrist, 

 Major Talbot, Miss Talbot, Messrs. Charteris, Harford, Lloyd, 

 Marsh, Miles, Powell, &c. 



News — they don't call it Khubber in the New Forest — was 

 brought to Mr. Lovell from more than one direction as to 

 eligible bucks. The report acted upon was that handed in by 

 Mr. Bradburne, of Lyburn, on the northern border of the 

 forest — whose keepers had this morning viewed three capable 

 bucks. (I am ready humbly to admit and to deprecate my 

 ignorance of the true buckhunting terms, trusting to be per- 

 mitted on future occasion to render myself more familiar with 

 the usage and diction of this good, wild sport.) Then the 

 pack were put into couples — or rather bunches — while there 

 were picked out Challenger, Perfume, Hermit, and Moonstone, 

 four steady old stagers, the first three from Bramham and 

 among them a Harpagon, the fourth a home-bred dog and a 

 grandson of Bramham Monarch, to be taken as tufters and 

 to certify the buck. To witness the tufting we (i.e. about 

 half a dozen of the more interested and as many more of 

 the novices) followed them and their huntsman under Mr. 

 Bradburne's pilotage down a hillside wood, where the deer 

 had been seen some four hours before. We had expected 

 to witness a long unwinding of a cold tortuous trail, cul- 

 minating in the sudden uprise of the buck from his lair. But 

 these bucks had been content to remain leisurely feeding in 



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