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I knew of one undergraduate at Oxford, 

 whose sporting establishment consisted of a 

 tame badger, a beagle, and a bull-terrier. 

 Whenever he required a little exercise and 

 a hunting run, the badger was turned out, 

 the beagle laid on after a certain amount of 

 law, and the bull-terrier kept in reserve to 

 recover the badger, should he go to ground. 

 This sporting quartette thoroughly under- 

 stood each other, and, as a rule, each kept 

 to his own special department. The badger 

 was expected, at least, to give a two or three 

 miles' run over a country, the beagle to speak 

 to him all the way, and to account for him, 

 the man to keep the beagle in view, and the 

 terrier to facilitate the operation of bagging 

 the badger at the finish. Thus all four 

 obtained in an original manner exercise and 



