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and has beneficial effect, but it Is too 

 big a nuisance for the ordinary hunter. 



The very grandest stud of weight- 

 carriers I ever saw were the late Mar- 

 quis of Waterford's, who came over to 

 Brocklesby to stay with Lord Yarborough 

 when the agrarian malcontents stopped 

 hunting in his own country and drove 

 him and his hounds away. A wonderful, 

 chatty, nice man Lord Waterford was, 

 with all the characteristic gameness of 

 the Beresfords in him. I was farming 

 just inside the Burton country, on 

 the borders of the Brocklesby, at that 

 time, and the Burton met at my house 

 once a month or so. 



One day Lord Waterford came over 

 to hunt with the Burton with us, and we 

 had the fastest twenty-five minutes on 

 record from Fen Wood back to my place. 

 The beaten fox tried to scale the high 



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