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the same, spots, and although disturbed will return to lay at the 

 exact place the next morning. The Dog had found the resting 

 places of all the hares in the neighbourhood, and would make a 

 dead set at them, till he received the word to put them up, which 

 being done, he would then proceed to find another. In this 

 manner the Butcher, the Dog, and the Pony nearly every morning 

 amused themselves, till at last the Pony knew where to find the 

 hares as well as the Dog. One morning the Dog was absent with 

 one of the Butcher's men on business, to fetch some sheep home, 

 the Master and Pony went by themselves the usual round, and 

 the Butcher was surprised to find he was conveyed to the same 

 spots, nor would his companion leave till he had dislodged the 

 game, after which the nag regularly proceeded to find another 

 hare ; thus he discovered a quality in the Pony he was not aware 

 of, and purposely confined Snap the next morning to put the 

 Pony's abilities to a further test, when he found he acted exactly 

 as before. 



An annual coursing match took place about this season, and 

 the Doctor, the Parson, the Lawyer, the Butcher, and several 

 other gentlemen met at an inn to arrange where it should take 

 place. The conversation turning upon the capabilities of the dogs 

 to be engaged in the sport, the Butcher offered to lay a wager of 

 a rump rnd dozen that his Pony would find more hares than any 

 Dog they could bring ; the Company thought at first he was in 

 jest, but when they saw his earnest manner, and found his cash 

 on the table to support his bet, they soon cried " done." and the 

 wager was laid. 



The Parson was a keen sportsman, and had really some good 

 Dogs, but they were to be sure a little out of practice, he having 

 been laid up with the gout. The Lawyer had been promised the 

 use of a Dog belonging to a notorious poacher whom he had got 

 through a scrape ; and the Doctor had borrowed a none-such 

 from one of his patients, at all events the Butcher and his 

 Welshman would stand no chance. 



The day and place of meeting being appointed, the Butcher, on 



