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couples were running her, and I, believing they 

 were the leading hounds, went with them ; but it 

 was not the hunted hind ; and, after trying to puzzle 

 out the line, they threw it up, and I found myself 

 out of the hunt altogether. I was not the only one 

 by a good many, who were not in at the death, 

 including the master, who, arriving late, never saw 

 the hounds at all. Accompanied by the three 

 couples of hounds, I made my way back to the 

 Lion. 



Shortly, I hear a horn, and find Arthur and his 

 hounds at the door, the huntsman being in great 

 glee at having had so good a run, lasting from 

 find to finish, about three hours and a-half. The 

 sport during the present season has been fair, six- 

 teen stags in all being killed, some crack runs 

 extending over twenty miles; one in particular 

 lasting for six hours, — the hounds running through 

 eleven parishes. Naturally, the pace must have 

 been slow, and, had it been the old instead of the 

 new hounds, the business would have been trans- 

 acted in two hours' less time. It has been a 

 difficult time for the huntsman, who has had to do 

 the greater part of his work with hounds that have 

 only been entered this season. The outbreak of 

 hydrophobia which occurred in the kennels of the 

 Devon and Somerset having played sad havoc with 

 the old pack, about fourteen couples in all being 

 lost, Mr. Bissett is to be congratulated on so good 

 a result, considering the difficult circumstances he 

 was placed in. Still precautions are taken, lest there 

 should be a recurrence of this frightful, and, at present, 

 incurable malady ; and the hounds were kept and 



