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sions frequent changes of foxes occurred. It 

 has been asserted, too — an error into which 

 I must admit having myself fallen by adopt- 

 ing current information which was incorrect 

 — that it was the custom occasionally to take 

 as many as one hundred couples of hounds 

 into the field. The largest number of 

 hounds specified by Jones, as having been 

 taken out at one time, was fifty couples, 

 which happened on the 6th of September 

 1 798, when they went to Budden Wood, 

 handy to the kennels ; and from a manu- 

 script list of Mr Meynell's hounds for the 

 year 1794, the number he had in kennel 

 was fifty-four couples. It was their custom 

 to work large bodies of hounds, consisting 

 of some five-and-thirty couples, till the be- 

 ginning of October, or after a frost, but the 

 usual complement was from twenty-two to 

 twenty-four couples. Every effort was 

 adopted to keep the foxes, as well as the 

 pack, in condition, as whenever there was 

 a continuance of snow on the ground, the 

 hounds were taken to the coverts to disturb 

 the foxes, which were evidently plentiful, 



