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l4WftM*-'4|H.I,^ WARWICK'S 

 '^■j:4';,d\^ STORY 



N the month of INIarch 

 last I was lying in a 

 strong gorse - covert, 

 not far from Nmie- 

 ham, when after hear- 

 ing the voice of 

 Stephens, the hunts- 

 man to the Atherstone ^ hounds, I heard the follow- 

 ing remarks by one sportsman to another, both 

 being on horseback and waiting close to where I 

 was in my kennel. 



" Well, I do hate that silent system ; had 

 Robert not been so sparing of his voice, or had he 

 only given one blast of his horn when he began 

 drawing the small spinney just now, the hounds 



1 Stephens was huntsman of the Warwickshire, not the Atherstone, 

 pack. — Ed. 



