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that duty now rapidly ensues, and the satisfactory 

 performance of which must engage the most serious 

 and experienced consideration that can be brought 

 to bear upon it." 



More true words were never penned. Yet how 

 few masters in the present age will give their time 

 and attention to this most important of all the im- 

 portant duties attached to their office — watching 

 the progress of the entry, and determining from their 

 own observation what young hounds are deserving 

 a place in the kennel list, as likely to contribute to 

 the strength and efficiency of the pack. Gentlemen 

 undertaking to hunt a country have many un- 

 pleasant as well as pleasant tasks to fulfil, and 

 some will argue, that Avhere they employ a first- 

 class huntsman, thoroughly acquainted with his 

 duties and business, there can be no necessity for 

 them to curtail their hours of rest to superintend 

 the entering of their young hounds ; and there are 

 no doubt many huntsmen of the present day, as 

 there have been in past times, who will faithfully 

 discharge their duties in this respect, and do ample 

 justice to the pack under their control — men above 

 suspicion, who would never think of drafting a 

 hound for a bribe, and who really take as much 

 interest in showing a good and clever entry as the 

 master himself. In large establishments of old 

 date we find this to be especially the case, and we 

 could mention many who have had almost the sole 

 management of the pack within our recollection, 

 whose zeal was only equalled by their fidelity to 

 the trust confided in them. Such as Philip Payne, 



