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twenty years, having commenced in Wales, 

 and in the year 1843 he undertook to hunt 

 the Wheatland country ; subsequently he 

 joined with it an engagement to hunt the 

 Shropshire, and afterwards the Albrighton. 

 Thus, when he took the North Warwickshire 

 in 1855 he was no novice at his arduous 

 duties, and the sport he has shown is the 

 most substantial confirmation that he is " the 

 right man in the right place." If in these 

 remarks I were to confine myself exclusively 

 to the sport I saw during one of the weeks 

 I was with them it might be conjectured that 

 I had been favoured by good fortune in 

 making my visit at the right time : but it 

 was the universal expression of every person 

 I met that their sport of the season was 

 unprecedented. Not that this announcement 

 is to be accepted as applicable only to the 

 present, for these hounds have had far more 

 than an average share of sport from their 

 first appearance in the country. 



The first two seasons Mr. Baker hunted 

 his own hounds, but since his engagement 

 with Peter CoUinson he transferred the horn 

 to his hands, and the sport the hounds have 

 afforded is quite sufficient to testify Peter's 



