

CR.W'EXS STORY 



T is unnecessar}' to 

 enter into the ordin- 

 2lt\ details of my life 

 after having heard our 

 friend who incited us 

 here. Consequently 

 mv storv' a^tU be a 

 short one. I was bom 

 and bred in Saveniake 

 Forest, in the Craven Hunt, where my father 

 and mother had been considered to be of some 

 importance, ha^'ing often beaten a famous pack of 

 hounds in that countr}'. To the best of my recol- 

 lection, the first pack of hounds by which I was 

 hunted belonged to Mr. I. Ward ; from them I 

 had many narrow escapes, which I now, ha^^ng 

 since been hunted by other hounds, set do^\Ti to 

 their immense size, for although they could and 

 did hunt me in an extraordinary manner, and 



