

CHESTER'S STORY 



S foxes are scarce in 

 our country, I alone 

 could be found to 

 travel here, and hav- 

 ing been hunted only 

 one season, I am, 

 from my own experi- 

 ence, but ill qualified 

 to reply to your 

 question as to the huntsman. I have as yet 

 escaped fi-om being hunted by him, but I do hear 

 that he is in all respects most excellent. Unfor- 

 tunately for him, but fortunately for us, he was lately 

 disabled by the fracture of a bone of his leg ; and 

 consequently could not come with the hounds when 

 they hunted the last week in the Namptwich country. 

 For reasons to be given hereafter, I had rarely lain 

 in coverts of late, and had preferred lying in 

 hedgerows. I happened, however, to be lying in a 



