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there was notliing we could do now but return 

 liome, hoping the hounds might return by them- 

 selves, and I well remember the Squire saying, 

 " I daren't go without them ; what would your 

 father say." 



We drove to Thornton, and before turning 

 into the yard I saw my father sitting in a garden 

 chair. He had seen us, and on coming out of the 

 garden, ashed how we had got on. 



" We've lost all the hounds," I replied. 

 " What ? " he said, " are they killed ? " 

 I then explained all to him. 

 " Oh ! " he said, " they'll soon come home 

 again, all right." And sure enough, with the 

 exception of one, they did all turn up in two 

 or three days ; some coming down Wensleydale, 

 and three or four down Swaledale. 



About a week afterwards, I heard they had 

 killed their fox near a village called Newbiggin, 

 which is not far from Kirkby Stephen, and as the 

 crow flies, I should say not more than three or 

 four miles from where we " found," so evidently 

 he was the same dog fox making back to his 



