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ledges such Information with a quick "Thank- 

 ye, slr,"^ will soon find that he gets less and 

 less of It ; In fact, If anybody offers It, It will 

 be some old sportsman who knows as well 

 as himself that If the run Is to end with blood, 

 they must be lifted now. 



Of course there Is the other extreme ; the 

 pack which no noise affects In any way, and 

 very exasperating they can be on occasion 

 also. But these are very rare, being in fact 

 limited to a few^ out-of-the-way Welsh packs, 

 of one of which the story has been told that 

 after a kill they would cast themselves round, 

 hit off the heelway, and run the line back 

 again to the covert they originally found in. 



Still, no doubt, fox-hunting is facile 

 princeps of English sports. But there is 



^ Pytchley men will know who was in my mind when I 

 penned this. Poor Goodall 1 



