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rain ; a cold, chilly wind blew from the south-west ; 

 and these combinations, with the addition of the 

 wet, damp ground, upon which old snow lay three 

 inches or more in depth, made the surroundings as 

 unfavourable as they well could be. 



Mr. Lindsay Hogg, in addition to the gentlemen 

 already named, judged, but the duties were almost 

 sinecures. Several tracks had been marked out by 

 small flags, and, although these courses were said to 

 be six hundred yards in length, they appeared con- 

 siderably more — probably that distance straight 

 away, with the run home additional. Each hound 

 was allowed a track of his own, which extended 

 along the racecourse for several hundred yards on 

 the flat, over sundry lots of railings, winding round 

 in the direction of a small plantation. The hounds 

 had to pass this, and then enter the road on the run 

 home. 



The latter portion of the track was along the 

 same line by each man who acted as the quarry, 

 thus making the trials more difficult tests for the 

 hound ; though those that ran first must necessarily 

 have had the advantage, as the latter part of the 

 road was less foiled by one or two men than it would 

 have been by half a dozen. Two stakes were pro- 

 vided, the one for the " clean boot," the other for 

 the ^' not clean boot." The latter in this instance 



