FOX-HUNTINGEARLY AND LATE. 341 



the field ? Echo answers, where ? Only four of us saw 

 the last half of that glorious thirty minutes. Well, 

 that countryman has a knife. The last honours are 

 performed, and the fox eaten ten minutes before the 

 field turn up. This year we shall be among the very 

 few who have seen a May fox killed. 



