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don't want them." To which a whipper-iu 

 rejoined, " We always couple thera, sir, that 

 they may not break away after the deer." 

 Philip's order, however, was imperative, and 

 the hounds evinced no disposition to riot, 

 much to the astonishment of the whippers-in. 

 For a quarter of a century this veteran of 

 the chase accompanied the hounds on their 

 visits to Heythrop, improving the pack and 

 showing capital sport. Great and glorious 

 were the doings in those days. Chapel 

 House, a highly famed caravansary, handy 

 to the kennels, affording the very best of 

 fare, was patronised by those members of 

 the Hunt who were compelled either to 

 leave their Badminton homes or forego the 

 pleasures of foxhunting during the absence 

 of the hounds. The expenses and incon- 

 veniences our forefathers necessarily encoun- 

 tered are happily averted by divisions of 

 countries and other changes in our social 

 habits. Age and infirmities working on 

 Philip, in 1826 he resigned his horn in 

 favour of William Long, under whose care 

 the Duke of Beaufort's Hounds continued to 

 hunt this country till the spring of 1835, 

 when, in consequence of ill health, his Grace 



