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Leaving the encampment, we wended our way homeward, 

 and after a pleasant evening with song and story, I retired 

 to bed, thoroughly tired and highly pleased with the day's 

 amusement. The pursuit of this animal, which is faster 

 than any fox, will, no doubt, be fashionable in a few years, 

 when gentlemen with sporting proclivities enter the country, 

 and the sons of those now residing there learn to appreciate 

 the pleasure it affords. 



