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with the easy passage of the hay from the loft to the 

 racks, and probably deeming them neither useful nor 

 ornamental, sawed off a large number of the points, 

 and of course destroyed many a choice specimen of 

 the frontlets that once adorned the monarchs of the 

 waste, and which had been collected and preserved 

 by the Acland family, during the time the hounds 

 were their property. I leave my readers to con- 

 jecture what the feelings of the worthy Baronet were 

 when he discovered the mischief that had been done, 

 and gazed with regret at the mutilated ' heads,' each 

 to be valued as a memento of some spirit-stirring 

 chase, the history of which had been handed down 

 to him by his ancestors. 



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