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will find that a small pack of hounds, say twenty- 

 eight couple, can be kept healthily and well in 

 kennels of surprisingly cheap construction. 



No doubt everyone knows this, still there are 

 many people who think a "pack of hounds" 

 needs a great expenditure in order to house it. 

 To these I would merely recount what we found 

 could be done in the New Forest in a very humble 

 fashion. Certainly the kennels did not in any 

 way affect our good sport. But when we could 

 obtain better kennels we thankfully did so. Mr. 

 Price carried on the hounds until 1908, when he 

 suddenly threw them up at the beginning of the 

 season. Mr. George Thursby and Captain Timson 

 jointly took over the pack, and got the hounds 

 into working order by about Christmas time, Mr. 

 Thursby carrying the horn. Although they 

 laboured under these disadvantages, the joint 

 masters were not long in reviving the class of 

 sport which this pack had shown in former years, 

 and in a few months they improved upon it. 

 Before the spring hunting, which is always such 

 a feature of this sport, Mr. Thursby had an ex- 

 cellent if rather a short, pack of working hounds, 

 while Captain Timson supported him by taking 

 charge of the tufting, and turning the pack to 

 him when in chase. 



In a couple of seasons more Mr. Thursby 



