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Xo leveli'J milice infects one comma iti ihe course I hold." 



'I'liKOii of Athens, net /, scene i. 



51 HI'' near approach of the Jubilee Year of the 



[;/ /^fi,C\\; Ro\-al Rock Beagles inspired the writer with 

 - ^5^7 i the ambitious design of lorniulating a record 

 of the origin and progress of this famous pack 

 of hound-. The extraordinar\- interest evir.ced b}' all past and 

 present members of the club in anything relating to the Ro}'al 

 Rock Beagles, must be the author's apolog\- for venturing to 

 present this volume to their notice. lie feels that, like himself, 

 there must be nian\- enthusiastic beaglers who will be glad to 

 have an account of the doings and traditions of the Hunt 

 in a convenient form. 



The materials available for the compilation arc somewhat 

 meagre, consisting of the Minute Book and Sport l^ook for 

 the first ten }'ears of the existence of the Hunt, some letters 

 and accounts preser\'cd b\' Mr. C. Rawson, and the traditions 



