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committee; the present wire enclosure being the 

 result, and has proven most advantageous during 

 the last summer. Colonel Morrell heartily con- 

 curred in this improvement upon his taking his 

 position as Master of Hounds, and at his instance 

 a further necessary improvement was made by the 

 addition of a puppy kennel and yard, which has 

 been long needed. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



DIFFICULTIES IN HUNTING FIELD. 



Anyone reading the published accounts of 

 fox hunts in this part of the country can form no 

 idea of the pleasure in the sport or the difficulties 

 attending it. A thorough familiarity with farm 

 lands or wooded sections along the public roads 

 is of very little good to you in a ride across 

 country, where every feature of the landscape is 

 so entirely changed that one appears to be in a 

 strange land, and you are soon likely to be lost 

 from hounds and companions and bewildered as to 

 locations. But, the question is asked by the un- 

 initiated, why cannot the hunter follow with his 

 horse directly after the hounds and not get lost? 

 He might, if the fox would keep to the open 

 country, and you had a horse that could take every 

 division fence, with endurance enough to last with 

 the hounds, up hill and down, and with fleetness 



