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of the cub-hunting was lost, they killed more foxes 

 than any other season that the writer kept hounds. 

 This trouble was bad enough, but it was still worse 

 to be told on all sides at the time that it would 

 be impossible ever to break them, or to hunt the 

 forest or where deer were again. By many this 

 would have been beheved, but having fortunately 

 heard it stated by one of the best sportsmen some 

 years before, that he used to hunt with Mr. Land, 

 who kept hounds at Hambledon, and hunted the 

 forest of Brere just before it was enclosed, and whose 

 hounds used to hunt both deer and fox at different 

 seasons of the year — that is, the deer during the 

 summer, and fox during the winter — in the same 

 forest; and the wi'iter has since been credibly in- 

 formed from others in that country that, after a 

 week or fortnight hunting fox, they were as steady 

 to fox as if they had never hunted deer, which 

 were now constantly crossing them. But it is fair 

 and right to add, that in those days this gentleman 

 did not enter so many young hounds, and these 

 were not entered till the fox-hunting season began, 

 and of course, did not hunt deer till the following 

 summer. 



The following is a sketch of a general cast, made by 

 the writer for many years. Although the principle 



