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a thing of this sort ; for although he may apparently 

 give way to the wishes of numbers, yet no man 

 forgets that he has been treated harshly. 



Deer are often the cause of much trouble to a 

 huntsman with a pack of fox-hounds, and although 

 he may flatter himself that he has got the steadiest 

 pack possible, the most trifling accident may make 

 them otherwise. And young hounds cannot be taken 

 too often amongst deer during the summer before 

 they are entered, and they should not be taken 

 out to exercise with the old hounds till just before 

 cub-hunting, if they are at aU before that begins, 

 by which time they ought to be tolerably handy 

 and thoroughly used to see riot. But the following 

 account of an accident with the writer's pack will 

 probably be sufficient to make others more cautious. 

 At the end of the summer in the month of August, 

 when the wTiter was from home, his men, to save 

 trouble, unknown to him took out the young hounds 

 with the old ones to exercise, and were passing 

 through a park full of deer, where they had con- 

 stantly been all the summer without having shown 

 the shghtest sign of riot. On going through some 

 fern a young hare jumped up, and some of the 

 young hounds took after her, directly into a herd 

 of deer. The men foohshly rode after them, rating 



