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all." I never heard of or saw the same system 

 again. 



INIany other changes took place, which, as being 

 unUke what we had been used to, were by no means 

 agreeable to us. One of them was the former way 

 of giving up hunting a fox and going to find another. 

 On some occasions, when I have been found 

 and hunted by the hounds, and fancied that I was 

 safe, as I had done on previous occasions whenever 

 I could not hear them, I was surprised to hear them, 

 after a short time, again hunting on the line I had 

 come. I was once found by the hounds in a covert 

 close to Fox Hall, and after they had pursued me 

 closely for a few miles, I, in consequence of there 

 being a hne of dry fallows, left them far behind ; so 

 that I had given up all idea of being disturbed again 

 by them that day, and stopped in Mr. Hope's plan- 

 tation ; I had been but a short time there when 

 they again approached, but slowly, and I heard the 

 following words addressed to Mr. Smith, who was 

 hunting his hounds : " How much longer shaU you 

 go on with this cold scent ? Don't you think you 

 can find another fox?" The reply was, "I shall 

 hunt this as long as a hound will own the scent. 

 We shall get up to him by and by, and kill him too." 



On hearing this it was time to be off. I was 



