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predominating ; and it says much for Sir Cliarles 

 Legard's perseverance as a huntsman that he has 

 been able to show such an excellent average of 

 sport as he has done. No run of especial bril- 

 liance has taken place, but there have been some 

 good days sport, and, everything considered, the 

 opening season has been a success. From the 

 material Sir Charles Legard has got together 

 there is every prospect of him soon becoming the 

 master of an excellent pack of otter-hounds. A 

 keen sportsman, that greatest of qualifications for 

 a huntsman, trouble and fatigue are as nothing to 

 him ; and it is encouraging to him to see the way 

 in which his new venture catches on with his 

 friends and neighbours. 



There, is little doubt of there being plenty of 

 otters preserved, and the thanks of all good 

 sportsmen are due to Sir Charles for reviving in 

 a country so well adapted to the sport the most 

 scientific of all hunting^. Success seems to have 

 been assured from the very first, and there is 

 every prospect now that the horn of the hunter 

 will never be silent from January to December in 

 the neighbourhood of Malton. 



