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give it pretty correctly: — " 1 like a burst of twenty minutes, and I do 

 admire a real hunting run of an hour, at a fair holding pace, when 

 every hound does his share of work ; and then, to find them increasing 

 their pace by degrees — your fox sinking before them, and running at 

 last from scent to view. This is a pleasure to be felt, but not to be con- 

 ceived." I was pleased by the distinction between " liking" and " ad- 

 miring;" there is enthusiasm in the latter, which should be inseparable 

 from fox-hunting ; and no one can doubt Lord Kintore having his full 

 share of that quality, what pursuit soever he may engage in. 



The Fife hounds originally hunted the greater part of the counties 

 of Fife and Forfar, but were turned out of Forfar, in consequence 

 of the splitting of the pack, diminution of subscription, &c. They, 

 however, found a new country in Perthshire, and in the best part of 

 Fife, in which they have a kennel, at a place called Torryburn. It is 

 called the '' West of Fife" country, and affords excellent sport. A short 

 time before I visited Mount Melville, the hounds had been enjoying a 

 succession of diversion in it— namely, nine good runs in eleven days ! 

 They had another, a third kennel, at Lord Kinnaird's, (at Tnchture,) but 

 which has been given up in consequence of their having hunted Forfar- 

 shire, since Mr. Dalyell left it. Lord Kinnaird, indeed, who, my readers 

 will remember, undertook the management of the Quorn country for Sir 

 F. Holyoke Goodricke, during part of the first season after the late 

 Sir Harry Goodricke's death, has now a pack of his own, having for 

 his confederate. Lord Duncan, son of the Earl of Camperdown. 



I must now describe the first day's sport with the Fife hounds, 

 having hitherto proceeded no further in it than my introduction to 

 Captain Wemyss, at the gate, which, however, may be classed under the 



