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together, in the third tliey com- 

 menced a terrible burst.'' 



(3) Goodall's chief aim was to 

 get the hearts of his hounds. He 

 considered hounds should be 

 treated Uke women — that they 

 would not bear to be bullied, to 

 be deceived^ or neglected with im- 

 punity. For this end he would 

 not meddle with them in their 

 casts until they had done trying 

 for themselves, and felt the ivaui 

 of him : he paid them the com- 

 pliment of going to fetch them ; 

 he never deceived or neglected 

 them ; he was continually cheer- 

 ing and making much of his 

 hounds ; if he was compelled to 

 disappoint them by roughly stop- 

 ping off a suckling vixen or dying 

 fox at dark, you would see him, 

 as soon as he had got them stop- 

 ped, jump off his horse, get into 

 the middle of his pack, and spend 

 ten minutes in making friends 



