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CHAPTER XXV. 



<( I'eware ! the ditch still lurks unseen, 

 "Which oft the cause of dire mishap has been; 

 P.nt who can pause the dangerous leap to 

 Miltonia victa, would'st tliou own the man .< 

 No no rush on, and ev'ry doubt defy 



* pcur ct sans rcproche,' the hunter's cry." 



Men, horses, and hounds adapted to country The .shires and the 

 . inces Dick Woodcraft and the Quorn-- ' ' with 



Ploughman His soliloquy The first check Hark ! hallo;: 

 and down wind Dick Wood in recover! n 



Things improve Fire and water Tom Oleanvell /< 

 Woodcraft takes the horn the Hold Finish to the 



run of the season The mystery solved. 



PARTICULAR countries require a particular sort of 

 hound suited to them ; and not hounds only, but 

 men and horses also ; for the most talented hunts- 

 man, transferred with his highflier out of Leices- 

 tershire or Northamptonshire, into Hants or I 

 without an acquaintance with the peculiarity of 

 the country and the running of the foxes, would 

 find himself all abroad, and entirely out of his 

 element and vice versa, take a good woodland 

 huntsman, from flints and fallows, and his little 

 spinnies of about two thousand acres each, down 

 into the shires, mounted on his famous hunter 

 Ploughman, everything would be different, and alto- 

 r a different, style of doing things to what he 

 had been accustomed. Largo open pastures, with 

 rasping quickset fences and bullfinches, posts and 



