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Barnett, the representative of the light 

 weights, who still goes gaily when oppor- 

 tunities occur ; Mr. Watkins, always hard 

 to beat, and Mr. Smith, a welter-weight, 

 equally determined, when hounds can run. 

 Now there were two Mr. Smiths of great 

 notoriety, masters of foxhounds, both dis- 

 tinguished by the same Christian name of 

 Thomas, at one time hunting adjoining coun- 

 tries ; and. there are many Smiths, and many 

 rejoicing in the appellative of John, but as 

 there was only one Tom Smith, so there 

 is only one John Smith, and that is the 

 oentleman to whom I refer. Grafton not 

 holding a fox, a visit was made to Kiteswood, 

 a very promising covert, and the hounds had 

 scarcely begun to draw when a fox, without 

 awaiting the ceremony of being found, broke 

 away through a phalanx of horses, and the 

 instant he showed himself out. of covert an 

 unhappy tyro began hastily to halloo, for which 

 indiscretion John Smith began to rate him ; 

 but it was a fine, gallant fox, not to be 

 headed by halloos, nor would the rating of 

 the unfortunate novice have turned him from 

 his point, even if it had been made in his very 

 teeth. It was quite evident one of two 



