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THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



the soil, and the character of ground over which he is 

 expected to hold a scent. What I may have to say on 

 the subject of hounds will afford matter for my next 

 chapter. I have, in this, dwelt more particularly on these 

 points, from a consideration of the changes in administra- 

 tion which have taken place around me since last season, 

 and of more which are likely to occur, in the hope that 

 should any one connected with a new management have 

 taken up this book, he may have arrived thus far before 

 casting it aside, and thereby, possibly, may have his 

 attention more immediately directed to what has, within 

 my own knowledge, caused more failures than a host 

 of all other accountable causes of disappointment. 



