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pursued me closely in the flat coimtn- and in the 

 forest, yet I found that I left them far behind 

 when running over the flinty hills which separate 

 that comitry from ^Ir. Ashton Smith's. Their 

 steady style of huntmg made it difticult to shake 

 them off" elsewhere. I once overheard a man remark 

 to their master that they were larger than any 

 that he had ever seen, especially as to their heads. 

 The reply at first sm^rised me, "• Yes. I like them 

 larofe, for when once thev get them do^^^l in hunt- 

 ino- thev are so hea^-^* that thev cannot s^t them 

 up agam."' After beuig limited by them mider liis 

 du-ection, I was hunted by them when they be- 

 longed to ]Mr. Horlock, from whom also I have 

 had some narrow escapes, principally by runnuig 

 through large woods, where they soon changed me 

 for another fox. I recollect once, when h*ing m 

 a small covert near Benham Park. I was startled 

 by liearmg the cry of another but smaller pack of 

 homids, as I could distinguish them to be by the 

 sound of their tongues. Shortly afterwiu-ds I saw 

 a fox pass near me much distressed, and very 

 soon the fatal ** whoop" was heard. It iifterwards 

 appeared that this gentleman's brother had permis- 

 sion to try whether he could kill with his sniidl 

 pack a fox which had more than once beaten the 



