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interested the spectators not a little. There was no 

 mistake as to the correctness of his nose up to the 

 plantation ; but here, where the quarry had turned, 

 the hound was at fault. He cast about till striking 

 the line again, and was hard on the track of the man 

 on turning into the road home. This he stuck to 

 until near the goal, when he became somewhat dis- 

 concerted, no doubt striking the wind of the crowd 

 as he approached them. His trial was very well 

 run. 



Mrs. Danger's Jaff was absent, and Mr. E. Brough's 

 Blueberry strangely refused to run, though what we 

 saw of her work on Monday proves her an excellent 

 bitch, and her owner considered her about his best. 

 Mr. Brough's Barnaby, mentioned earlier on, went 

 quicker along the line the runner had taken than 

 Hector had done, and, like him, cleared or went 

 under the railings according to the mode the quarry 

 had adopted. Just before reaching the plantation 

 Barnaby lost the scent, but cast to the right and left 

 until it was struck again. He, too, was a consider- 

 able time out of sight behind the plantation, but on 

 reappearing in the road he was running the line of 

 the man, which he continued much as Mr. Wright's 

 hound had done, failing to quite come up to the 

 winning post for similar reasons. 



Dr. Hales Parry's Primate was absent, so the 



