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and some time elapsed before he felt himself 

 disposed to face the open. At length a very 

 fine young fox presented himself in the grass 

 ground, in the direction of Burrow Hill, and 

 sanguine hopes led to the pleasing expectation 

 that he would face that delectable country ; 

 but these hopes were disappointed ; without 

 any reliable cause the fox worked his way to 

 the left, running nearly the same line his pre- 

 decessor had done, and was finally lost at very 

 nearly the same spot where the first fox went 

 to ground. The latter part of this run, till 

 the fatal check occurred, was vastly interest- 

 ing ; but, as it very generally happens, when 

 foxes get into buildings, as there is reason to 

 suppose this one did, they escape, and this 

 proved no exception to the rule. 



It is painful to conclude with a dis- 

 agreeable subject, and I can scarcely recol- 

 lect any matter connected with foxhunting 

 that occasions so much annoyance as the 

 wires placed in the hedges for the purpose 

 of strengthening weak places. On Monday, 

 Mr. Stud, when hunting with Mr. Tailby, 

 had his horse's entrails torn out by one of 

 these dreadful devices ; and a very valu- 

 able mare of Lord Stamford's, having got 



