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THE LTJNDIN RUN WITH THE FIFE HOUNDS, 



November 30th, 1877. 



The meet was at Lundin Station, and here were 

 assembled, at eleven o'clock, the devotees of the chase. 



* * * But now to the covert close at hand, and the 

 hounds are scarcely in it before you can tell that some- 

 thing is up. No fox is viewed away, but it is clear they 

 can smell one. After a flash in the wrong direction by 

 some of the youngsters, owing partly to excitement and 

 partly to a hare, they quietly got together again, and 

 with two or three cheery notes from the master's horn, 

 are out of the wood, and streaming away with a rattling 

 scent towards Durie — gently over that wall, with the 

 drop that lands you clear of the covert. If you don't 

 hit it and fall, you have taken your station in society 

 for the next two miles, and it will be your own fault if 

 you lose it. There is no doubt about it : this is not one 

 of your " hold hard, gentlemen," days ; you may ride 

 where you like, and the heart of the master rejoiceth. 



* * * The pack stopped mute at an open drain. 

 Many are the devices suggested for the ejection of poor 

 Reynard : but cold water proves at once the most harm- 

 less and the most effectual, for in a few minutes, as if 



