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and it was the strange contrast between the two 

 which first decided us to try whether we could not 

 collect some evidence as to the hounds and huntsmen 

 of the era, when the sport had just ceased to be a 

 mere home-spun drama, interspersed with "Bright 

 Chanticleer proclaims the dawn," and its jovial 

 Tantivy chorus, crackling logs in the ingle, sparkling 

 Diana Vernons, with an occasional Tony Lumpkin for 

 contrast, and chaplains who could find a hare-form 

 with much greater precision than the lessons for the 

 day. 



