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with their dogs for seven or eight days' 

 fox-hunting." It must have been a curious 

 sight on that Sunday morning to see His 

 Royal Highness, the Duke, the Bishop, 

 the divers persons of quality, with their 

 dogs, at the palace and one can picture 

 the appearance of the "dogs," collected 

 from all parts of the country, of all shapes 

 and sizes. 



But I am hanging on the line, if not 

 dwelling in covert, and all this was meant 

 to be by way of saying that these old- 

 fashioned ideas of fox-hunting seem to have 

 penetrated, to some extent at least, to the 

 days when I first hunted with the Cleveland 

 hounds. I can testify that to many of the 

 sportsmen on foot, even to many of the 

 farmers on horseback, the fox was certainly 



