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having been drawn, and very soon found a second 

 fox, exactly in the same manner as before, which 

 broke cover immediately over the same fine coun- 

 try ; but the chase was much longer ; and, in 

 course of it, the fox made its way into a nobleman's 

 park, I believe Lord Darlington's, which w'as full 

 of all sorts of riot, and it had been customary to 

 stop all hounds before they could enter it, which 

 the best-mounted sportsman now attempted to do, 

 but in vain ; the hounds topped the highest fences, 

 ran through herds of deer and a number of hares, 

 without taking the least notice of them ; ran in to 

 their fox, and killed him some miles beyond the 

 park ; and it was the unanimous opinion of the 

 whole hunt that it was the finest run ever known 

 in that country. An ample collection of field-money 

 was made for the huntsman, much beyond his ex- 

 pectation ; and he returned to Stepleton in better 

 spirits than he left it, and told his story as above 

 related, in which we must allow for some little ex- 

 aggeration, very natural on such an occasion. This 

 pack was probably the progenitors of the very fine 

 ones now in the north. Before tliis pack was raised 

 in Dorsetshire, the hounds which hunted in the 

 chase hunted all the animals promiscuously, except 

 the deer, from which they were necessarily made 

 steady, otherwise they would not have been sufi'ered 

 to hunt at all in it.'' We have good reason to be- 

 lieve Lord Yarborough's fox-hounds, at Brocklesby 

 Hall, Lincolnshire, were established as far back as 

 the year 1700. The present huntsman and his late 

 father hunted them more than sixty years. 



