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hounds should go out if the subscribers wished 

 it, and they could make any suitable arrange- 

 ments. I was asked to undertake to hunt the 

 hounds, and Lord Londesbrough promised to 

 supplement my small stud by lending me what 

 horses I wanted. On these terms I agreed to 

 try what I could do. I had the advantage of 

 knowing every hound in the pack, and what 

 his capabilities were, and, after a few days' horse 

 exercise with me, they became handy enough ; 

 but even so, it was no easy task to hunt another 

 man's pack, with servants not my own, but only 

 temporarily under my orders, and riding horses 

 lent by another person still ! However, we did 

 not have a very bad spring season's hunting. 

 Though I was not able to achieve a " record " 

 run, we had two or three very good days 

 notably on April 27, when hounds ran hard in 

 the morning for forty-five minutes and killed 

 an old buck, and in the afternoon ran a buck 

 from Ehinefield down into the Avon valley 

 beyond High Wood, and, turning back to the 

 Forest, bayed him at seven o'clock P.M., in the 

 stream by Burley Manor, after a long and varied 

 hunt over all sorts of country of some three hours 

 duration. As is so often the case, when it came 

 to cultivated land, hounds could only walk after 

 the wild deer ; he is much more difficult to hunt 



