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like affected superiority, or anything bordering 

 on underrating what he sees, cannot expect respect 

 or courtesy in return ; in fact the man disposed 

 to a day's hunting with the pack would be 

 very unlikely to commit such a solecism in good 

 manners. 



In proof of what I say I will mention a 

 short anecdote that, if my memory serves me, I 

 have used in something I have written, but as 

 it is exemplative of what I have stated here 

 I am guilty of repetition. 



On my first going into a neighbourhood 

 there were a pack of staghounds within four 

 miles, one pack of foxhounds within half-a-mile 

 of my house, another the kennels of which 

 were about seven miles off, an old established 

 pack of harriers within a mile, and another, a 

 scratch pack, kept by a farmer within two, 

 so I wanted not for hounds of all sorts. Riding 

 out one day I came across the latter, and an 

 unusually sizeable and one sort of family-like 



