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at her. 1 shall never forget her, with Ritual, by Mr. 

 Osbaldeston's Sailor, out of Mr. Berkley's Relict, another 

 of the sort, when crossing the canal near Tring, in the 

 middle of that glorious run, mth a three o'clock fox, 

 from Kensworth Gorse to Wendover, having skirted 

 Aylesbury. In an accurate account which appeared from 

 the pen of some friend in " Bell's Life," the pack were 

 well described, and truly, when crossing the canal, as 

 " clustering as though all might have been included in a 

 casting net ; " but I will not here dwell even upon this 

 glorious day, though glorious it may well be called, con- 

 sidering that a space of thirty miles over the map, by 

 admeasurement, were accomplished in two hours and 

 twenty-eight minutes, without one hound missing, with a 

 fox found after a severe morning's previous work, and 

 that, taking it altogether, it has been pronounced by the 

 oldest masters cff hounds, and other high authorities, as 

 a run which will scarcely find its parallel in the records 

 of any country. It is matter of congratulation to my- 

 self, and I hope, also, to all interested in the well being 

 of that pack, which, as long as I have a spark of ambi- 

 tion left within me, shall be 7miri seciindiis, that Baneful 

 and Ritual are both of them now only in their fifth year, 

 and that their descendants give fair promise of bearing 

 evidence of their stamp. The former has, at this 

 moment, by her side, a most beautiful fitter by the 

 Duke of Beaufort's Rallywood. 



