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pack of harriers, that sound, I fancy, more 

 musical in a mountainous country, than they 

 do in one more level ; and my thoughts carried 

 me back to times, when horses and dogs I used 

 to consider, if not quite equal, at any rate, very 

 little inferior to my own species. Though many 

 years have passed, since I have had much to 

 do with the former, I have not forgotten how 

 frequently I have been indebted to their extra- 

 ordinary tact and cleverness in extricating their 

 rider from dangers in the hunting-field, and 

 dark lanes, and short cuts in districts I knew 

 nothing of. Once on the back of a horse I 

 had hard work to manage, either by coaxing, 

 or less kind persuasives, I was enjoying a little 

 "'schooling? as they called it in Ireland ; or 

 "larking" at Oxford; when off he rushed 

 with the bit between his teeth, in spite of my 

 frantic efforts to hold him. The first fence he 

 came to he cleared more like a deer with his 

 legs tucked under him, than in the usual manner. 

 To be carried thus " nolens volens," is scarcely 



