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that can be given to a huntsman' 

 is for a fool to say, '' We had a 

 great run, and killed our fox ; as 

 for the huntsman, he might have 

 BEEN IX bed/' a huntsman's 

 FIRST BOAST should be, that alt 

 his hounds required was to be 

 taken to the covert side and taken 

 home again. His greatest dis- 

 grace is (1) to leave his hounds 

 squandered all over the country, 

 and to leave them out ; (2) to be 

 unable to get them out of a wood ; 

 (3) not to know to a yanf where 

 he lost his fox — if properly 

 managed the hounds will always. 

 tell it to him. 



The causes that have produced 

 the present unsteadiness in the 

 hounds from hares : — 



(1) In 1863, seventeen z'/r///^//v 

 blank clays^ that is, not finding a 

 fox whilst there was light to kill 

 him, and rarely a day with two 

 or three foxes to bring the hounds 



