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a fox's head in Cleveland was, in the earlier 

 period, 35., and in the present century 45. 

 The "jackal head " is a mystery that I cannot 

 pretend to solve ; the only jackal I ever 

 heard of in Cleveland beino- a tame one 



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that I imported from Africa, which is living 

 and thriving to-day, after several years of 

 domestic life in anything but an African 

 climate. When I was a boy, I was told by a 

 very old sporting yeoman farmer, that it was 

 the custom in other days, after a kill with the 

 " Roxby and Cleveland " hounds, to go to the 

 parson with the head, get the head money, 

 and then to adjourn to the nearest public- 

 house and expend the price of blood over 

 a bowl of punch, the flavour of which was 

 heightened by the addition of a pad, the 

 brush, or the whole head to the mixture. 



