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besides the fox which we followed to Medbourne 

 We may have changed anywhere in hedgerows, 

 but I saw no perceptible change of scent, or anything 

 to cause me to think so. 



" Some of your correspondents have asked where 

 I managed to get five horses during the run. They 

 will see in ' Bailey ' that- I was indebted to the 

 kindness and sportsman-like feeling of my friends 

 Mr. Hay and Mr. Walter de Winton, and I beg 

 all of them to accept my most grateful thanks. 

 Both Colonel Eraser and Colonel Whyte on getting 

 fresh horses also most generously offered them to 

 me. Captain Clerk was the only man who rode 

 the same horse to the end of the run, and rode home 

 with me to the kennels. I left two and a half couple 

 of hounds out (not four and a half in the covert at 

 Fallow Closes), but they all came home next day, 

 except one, and he came home on Monday. The 

 only men present when I stopped the hounds were 

 Captain Clerk, Colonel Fraser, Colonel Whyte and 

 Mr. John Chaplin. 



" This I believe to be a correct statement of the 

 leading facts. I can only add I never saw hounds 

 carry on so far at the same pace, and so straight and 

 over so fine a country. 



" Yours truly, 



"J. A. T." 



In spring of 1866 I wanted some more young 

 hounds. I received a letter from Lord Doneraile, 

 who was then Master of the Burton Hounds, but 



