THE HUNTSMAN 



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Duke de Albufera (Suchet's) covers at Tankerville, and after a 

 long draw found a fox in a piece of gorse in an open country, 

 which being immediately headed into the mouth of the hounds, 

 a French gentleman rode up, and taking off his hat, exclaimed, 

 " Sir, I congratulate j'ou on catching him so soon, and with so 

 little trouble ! " Frenchmen have a mortal horror of the idea 

 of a pack of hounds, imagining that if they once get into a 

 cover they will destroy every living thing in it. On this occa- 

 sion, however, those that were out found great fault with the 

 chiens Anglais, asserting that they were good for nothing, for 

 they would neither hunt hares, rabbits, nor rats. 



