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animals are fairly good looking, and their work was 

 quite satisfactory. Blueberry was afforded the next 

 trial, a stranger to him acting as the quarry, taking 

 a course down the hill over sundry fences, making 

 one side of a circle, a distance of about a mile. 

 After eight minutes' law the hound was un- 

 leashed, and had no difficulty in hitting the line, 

 though snow was falling heavily. She carried it 

 along at a good pace, quite mute, and, a little at a 

 loss at one fence in the hollow, cast well around, 

 refound the line, and, without more ado, ran it out up 

 to the man. 



At one portion of this trial a labourer crossed the 

 track, but the bitch stuck to her line, and was not 

 thrown out for a moment. Without resting, the two 

 couples of the Scarborough hounds had a quarry 

 provided in Dr. Philpot. For some distance he made 

 his way along the hillside, through scrub and stunted 

 bushes, down to a hedge at the foot of the vale. 

 Here there was a road, and, crossing this and a fence, 

 the quarry made up a bare field to a plantation. 

 Skirting the wood for three hundred yards, another 

 fence was reached, across this, along some bare 

 ground, by the side of another hedge, to the foot of 

 the hill where we stood. No better view of such a 

 trial could be had. This course was quite a mile. 

 As the four hounds were to start, they were slipped 



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