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were sold by Messrs. Tattersall, at the kennels, 

 on the 10th of May; his successor, Mr. 

 Oswald Milne, to whom he would willingly 

 have sold them, not wishing to become a pur- 

 chaser. It was doubtless a painful trial to 

 part with his pack, which in the course of 

 twenty years he had brought to very great 

 perfection, and which had afforded wonderful 

 sport. It must, however, be a source of 

 unalloyed satisfaction to him, when reminis- 

 cences of by-gone days flit across his mind, 

 that he had given the greatest satisfaction to 

 all who hunted with his hounds during the 

 seven seasons he was in North Warwickshire, 

 and that the circumstance which compelled 

 his resignation was a source of universal 

 sorrow. 



