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with their dos^s for seven or eio^ht davs' 

 fox-huntino-." It must have been a curious 

 sight on that Sunday morning to see His 

 Royal Highness, the Duke, the Bishop, 

 the divers persons of quaHty, with their 

 dogs, at the palace — and one can picture 

 the appearance of the "dogs," collected 

 from all parts of the country, of all shapes 

 and sizes. 



But I am hanging on the line, if not 

 dwelling in covert, and all this was meant 

 to be by way of saying that these old- 

 fashioned ideas of fox-hunting seem to have 

 penetrated, to some extent at least, to the 

 days when I first hunted with the Cleveland 

 hounds. I can testify that to many of the 

 sportsmen on foot, even to many of the 

 farmers on horseback, the fox was certainly 



