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Moor, up and round Addleborougii, down nearly 

 to Cnbeck where lie swung to the left, up and 

 past Scar Top, and on to the west end of Worton 

 Edges, where hounds marked him to ground 

 after a good run of seven or eight miles. It 

 now being five o'clock, and Mr. Scrope fully 

 fifteen miles from his kennels, he decided not 

 to dig. 



I am aware that hunting bag foxes is not 

 considered quite orthodox, but I feel sure that, 

 without " kisting," quite eight out of ten of these 

 wild moorland foxes would escape death and 

 thus leave open to those game preserving en- 

 thusiasts that everlasting exaggerated cry of the 

 amount of damage they do to game. I have 

 recently been told that hunting bagsmen makes 

 hounds wild. This I have noticed only in united 

 meets with other packs, and this, I believe, does 

 cause a little jealousy, and may have a tendency 

 to make hounds run riot, but the greatest draw- 

 back I always found was the hallooing, shouting, 

 and wild running of excitable foot people who 

 do not understand anything of hounds or hunting. 



