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Master, more than half the pack ran " Brer 

 rabbit " right merrily till he took refuge in a 

 clitter of rocks. A short interval followed, 

 and then a young farmer on the extreme 

 right moved a hare from her form in a bunch 

 of rushes. She sank the hill, and took a 

 line across a nasty boggy bit of ground into 

 some cultivated enclosures, which looked like 

 an oasis in the midst of this bleak, wild 

 stretch of country ; she took us through 

 three enclosures on to the moor again, and 

 then made a ring back to the other side of 

 the rising ground, near where she was found, 

 thence into a furze brake, where she was 

 unaccountably lost. Up to this point I am 

 bound to confess the pack carried the line 

 fairly well, and with plenty of music, though 

 owing to the dismal inequality of size it was 

 of the extreme straggling order, not at all 

 like the proverbial " flock of pigeons," as the 



larger hounds simply raced away from their 



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