A HUNT IN DURHAM 



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for the covert side. Coffee-housing he holds 

 in abhorrence — except when hunting with other 

 hounds — and he is too much absorbed in the draw- 

 ing of coverts to notice the chaff which his field 

 resort to when waiting for a fox to break. His 

 knowledge is of great assistance to the huntsman 

 when hounds are running, but he dislikes any 

 dawdling, and soon as one fox is killed, run to 



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Near the finish of a good day's sport. 



ground or lost, hurries off to the next covert on his 

 carefully thought out plan. A great economist 

 of words during hunting hours, day after day he 

 sticks to the sport until darkness compels him to 

 stop, and probably no hounds in the kingdom have 

 to be whipped off more frequently owing to failing 

 light. 



" The country is not an easy one to cross when 

 hounds are running. It is a district of big wood- 

 lands and grass pastures, two fields of plough not 

 being encountered in a month, but there are many 



