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every time. These are my positive orders. You know 

 your duty as whipper-in — do it." Jem, seeing how 

 matters stood, murmured something about a good run 

 spoilt, which I told him was my concern, and not his, 

 and executed my orders. Still the screaming went on, 

 as soon as any fox made his appearance at the edge of 

 the wood, and being at one time in a ride very near the 

 outside, T heard one man exclaim, " I'll be hanged if I 

 don't halloo till he does come." In a moment 1 was out- 

 side, and riding up to this gentleman, I said, *' Now, Sir, 

 I am come, pray what do you want with me ?" " All I 

 have to say. Sir, is," he replied, " that a fox is gone over 

 that field, and your whipper-in stopped the hounds, say- 

 ing such were your orders." " Very true, Sir, such are 

 my orders." " Then I suppose," he said, "you are going 

 to keep the hounds in covert all day, and spoil our sport." 

 " No," I replied, " I am not, although you and others 

 have nearly spoilt my hounds by hallooing and driving 

 for the last month. Yet, I may give you a run by-and- 

 bye, if you have patience, but I will have no more halloo- 

 ing. My hounds are running one fox, which I intend to 

 stick to, and you are hallooing another." I returned to 

 my business with the old fox, which I had seen several 

 times before the hounds, and by riding wijih them 

 through the wood high and low, I kept them at him, 

 and we had it soon, all to ourselves, without another fox 

 remaining. The scent improved, and finding his quarters 

 too hot to hold him, the old fox at last broke away over 

 a fine grass vale, and we ran into him in the open. My 

 noisy friend directly came up, and said he was sorry he 

 had offended me by hallooing, and thanked me at the 

 same time for the run we had given him. " Now," I 



