CHAPTER XI 



SOME HUNTING STORIES 



WITHOUT mentioning names I must 

 tell a few tales which happened when 

 hunting with different packs. 

 At one time we had a man hunting here who 

 made the answer at the moment which other 

 people would possibly think of next morning in 

 bed and wonder " why I didn't say that." 



In a jostly checking hunt, with spurts of pace 

 which excited ambition, an over-anxious stranger 

 collided with our ready friend — riding at his 

 picked place in a fence. 



It is a close thorny country there with only a 

 few open places in each fence. The first whack 

 was endured in silence, but at the very next fence, 

 hounds dwelt in the middle of the field, the stranger 

 repeated the offence. Some language ensued 

 and when at the very next place the stranger 

 did it again even a milder man would have given 

 way. 



Hounds checked, and a storm fell upon the 

 stranger, who, coming from a county where perhaps 

 one took a place where one could, looked be- 

 wildered. - 



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