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good enough to maintain the standard of his 

 pack. But he was determined to have nothing 

 but the best procurable, and I think he bought 

 more than he bred, when he could hear of them. 



When he wanted to give them up and start 

 foxhounds, no buyer was in the market, and it 

 ended by this perfect little pack being sold for 

 a mere song. 



Mr. Mills always delighted in "a good cry," 

 and he used to run twenty or twenty - five 

 couples of these little hounds, and truly the cry 

 was as melodious as it was abundant. It really 

 was a pack of " merry harriers." At the time 

 that Mr. Price was master of the Buckhounds, 

 he started a little pack of foot beagles, with 

 which he hunted hares round about Lyndhurst, 

 and this sport became very popular with the 

 tradesfolk and foot people of Lyndhurst. And 

 not unfrequently they hunted over enclosed lands 

 by invitation, and visited sundry farms in the 

 neighbourhood. After Mr. Price left New Park, 

 another similar pack of beagles was formed, and 

 subscribed to by the Lyndhurst residents. It still 

 shows sport in that locality under the master- 

 ship of Mr. Day. 



With so much hunting going on, it was 

 not too easy to map out a country and for- 

 mulate a permission which should give these 



