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paid as little heed to him as they would to 

 a lamp-post. It beggared description, and 

 was too funny for words, but at the same 

 time utterly pathetic to think that a grand 

 old English sport should be prostituted by 

 such an ignorant person. One gentleman, 

 who had been a Master of Harriers for five- 

 and- twenty years, said : " Good Gad, sir ; 

 good Gad ! I have seen a sight such as I 

 shall never forget as long as I live . . . the 

 man must be mad or a born fool ! He 

 cannot ever have handled the pack before." 

 I corrected him on this point, as I had 

 myself seen our Nimrod more than once, 

 accompanied by his wife, exercising the 

 hounds himself horn the lofty eminence of a 

 dog-cart, and it was currently reported that 

 only a small portion of the pack returned to 

 kennel with him, the result being that divers 

 and sundry people complained of meat, 

 butter, eggs, etc., being purloined and 



