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education ; and the Atherstone were likewise well represented. 

 The music became a roar, and it was very quickly a case of from 

 scent to view and " who-whoop ! " The pulling to pieces was 

 quite after the English view of the thing ; though the quarry was 

 perhaps a bit tougher, and they did not seem to care about 

 making a repast of him. 



In addition 'to his qualifications of speed and nose 

 he has a peculiar homing faculty, developed to a 

 remarkable extent. Hounds have been known to 

 return to their kennels from remarkable distances. 

 One draft that had been sent from the Holderness 

 into Kent were discontented with their new quarters, 

 and had arrived nearly home again before they were 

 discovered. A Cumberland hound returned from 

 Sussex to its old home, evidently preferring the 

 mountains of its native county to the downs of the 

 southern one. 



There is an old huntsman in the English Lake 

 district, Tommy Dobson by name, who runs the 

 Eskdale pack. He is a bobbin turner by trade, 

 but manages to keep a lot of excellent work- 

 ing hounds and terriers together, the farmers and 

 some landowners in that wild district giving him so 

 much a head for the foxes he kills. He hunts on 

 foot, for no horse could follow w r here he goes. 

 Repeatedly he has long runs ; his hounds get lost for 

 a time, but they usually arrive at their kennels the 

 day following the hunt. Dobson is a keen old 



