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do. It is no easy task to bring out those big, heavy 

 hounds looking bright and fit and hvely through such 

 a spell of tropical weather as we had in igo6. 



The pace of the pack has notably improved in the 

 last few years ; they run better together and with 

 less inclination to string. Running better together, 

 they strike one as being rather more eager to fling 

 their tongues, this being specially so in the mixed 

 pack, where the presence of a few bitches has 

 increased the music perceptibly. 



The most noticeable improvement effected by 

 Mr. Sanders has been in the obviating of those long 

 weary waits during tufting which so frequently had 

 to be endured in days gone by. This is due, in a 

 great measure, to the able harbouring of Fred Goss, 

 but is also attributable to the general quickening up 

 of the whole of the proceedings which has been 

 brought about by the Master, as much by example 

 as by precept. 



The good runs witnessed in the past twelve years 

 are too numerous to be recited here, the two best 

 being those from Hawkridge to Glenthorne in 1899 

 with a stag, and from Chapman's Barrows to Dunster 

 with a hind, both given in detail elsewhere. Other 

 noteworthy runs were from Hele Bridge to Honor 

 Oak with a hind ; from Yard Down to Silcombe, a 

 race all the way ; from Yearnor Moor to Fylcdon ; 

 from the Warren to Woolhanger, and back to 

 Bromham ; from Haddon to Emmet's Grange; from 

 Hadden to Bradleigh, by Cruwys Morchard ; from 



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