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then they are likely to have **goocl sport," 

 because hounds run over foiled ground as well 

 again as they do over a nice bit of stubble or 

 grass. 



I must apologise for speaking bluntly and 

 plainly on this subject, but how any man in 

 his right senses can carry out the methods of 

 some so-called harrier men, is beyond me. If 

 they are right, then how wrong I have been all 

 these years, and how much better sport I 

 might have had ! 



But will you forgive an old man's vanity if 

 I claim for my hounds that they have shown 

 as much sport, if not more than any other 

 pack of harriers in England? Perhaps this 

 has been due to various elements combined, a 

 good pack of hounds (and sometimes, at least, 

 I took them in the right place), and a few real 

 good men, who knew what to do and where to 

 go. All these things helped sport, and I 

 might have shown Mr. Beckford, had he 

 afiforded us the pleasure of his society, that 

 our hares were capable of making a straight 

 three, four, or five-mile point, and that usually 



