154 MANAGEMENT OF HOUNDS. 



The culprit himself had little hopes, as he had done a 

 great deal of business in a short time, and many appeared 

 against him on his trial. He proved to be a farmer's 

 servant in our neighbourhood, who used his master's 

 horse, when he had retired to bed, for this unlawful 

 purpose. 



I have related these stories to show that these were 

 troublesome times, and there was a necessity sometimes 

 to take the law into our own hands. Having now, in 

 my last two letters, got entirely out of the line, I pur- 

 pose in my next to resume the subject of fox-hunting. 



