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remember it well. Well, sir, we found in the Gorse, 

 and went away towards Chute windmill, and on to 

 Limmers, and from there to Conholt Park, and when 

 we got to Conholt Park we run him right round and 

 out right away for Weyhill, and on for Lord Win- 

 chester's place ; you do know it, sir, though his lordship 

 don't hunt." 



" Amport ? " I suggest. 



"That's it, sir; oh, dear, dear me, 1 am getting 

 quite forgetful ; well, sir, we run him from there, away 

 for Clatford Oakcuts, and on for Stockbridsfe, and 

 killed him on Houghton Down, and then we were 

 some way from home." 



"Why that must have been as good a run as you 

 had once with the Duke of Grafton, after the mishap 

 with the vixen." 



"Ah, dear, dear me, and I remember that well. 

 'Twere on the 13th o' April, and we found a fox in 

 Jarvis's Gorse, near Newport Pagnell, and we didn't 

 know there were a vixen there, or any cubs laid down. 

 Well, you see, sir, the fox wouldn't go away, so the 

 hounds cauo:ht her, and when I went in to take tbe fox 

 away, oh dear, dear, I see 'twere a vixen that had cubs, 

 and all of a sudden I see the whip, as were with me, 

 dive down amongst some long sedgy grass in the cover, 

 and he picked up two poor little cubs, only a few days 



