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and, with anything approaching to a scent, 

 to run into his fox in thirty or forty min- 

 utes, was the summit of Mr Osbaldeston's 

 dehght. When a cast became imperative, 

 a bold one was his general custom. He 

 either recovered his fox without loss of time 

 in a masterly and most exciting manner, or 

 he gave him up and went to draw for 

 another. The echo of his cheering halloo 

 still resounds in the ears of his admiring 

 companions, too few of whom, sad to say ! 

 are now left to tell of his glorious deeds. 

 About the middle of the season 1821, Mr 

 Osbaldeston exchanged countries with Sir 

 Bellinorham Graham, who was then hunt- 

 ing the Hambledon, in Hampshire. The 

 baronet had cultivated great experience as 

 a master of hounds. Being impressed with 

 an ardent love for all things appertaining to 

 the '' noble science," he appeared in Leices- 

 tershire a most accomplished artist. Al- 

 though his weight was considerable — ex- 

 ceeding, as it is said, sixteen stone — he was 

 always with his hounds, at the expense, how- 

 ever, of several nasty falls. His initiation 



