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class offenders ; tlie hounds, heads up, in ten or 

 twelve minutes ; and no scent forward. 



To tell such men — sportsmen of course they are 

 not — that by their own conduct a good run has been 

 spoilt, will be mere waste of so many words. They 

 have no idea of sport ; it has never entered into their 

 imaginations to conceive what sport might mean. 

 They have gone out hunting for their gallop, have 

 had it j and Harry thinks his nag has the foot of 

 Tom's, and can negotiate — that's the cant term — 

 his fences in better style. That's all he cared about 

 knowing; and as for the master's "damson juice," 

 he don't care a rap about it. He has broken old 

 Saracen's leg ; but masters of hounds don't bring 

 actions for damages of this kind. 



