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No more he'll wake the echoes wild, or wind his 



bugle horn, 

 No more the sportsmen of the North with Gallon 



will combine 

 To hunt the otter in the streams of Wansbeek, 



Eeed, and Tyne. 



THE CELEBEATED FOXHOUNDS OF 

 EMMETHAUGH. 



SPKTJNG from a race of hounds which confer 

 fame upon the packs of Slaley, Haydon, and 

 Buccleugh ; and shed a halo of hunting glory 

 around the names of Forster, Dodd, Eoutledge, 

 Hedley, Dagg, Eobson, Jackson, Potts, Davison, 

 and Scott, likewise around the name of their 

 gallant owner William Eobson, of Emmethaugh, 

 best known on the Borders by the homely soub- 

 riquet of Lang Will; with whom and many 

 others of the stalwart and wiry type of hunters, 

 that hunt their hounds on foot, the author has 

 had many a glorious foxhunt in the wilds of 

 Kielder, North Tyne, Eeed-water, and Liddes- 

 dale the blood of this famous race of dogs has 



