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follow a hare on foot with those little short-legged dogs by way 

 of sport ? ' 



" On being told that this was so he said, ' Marvellous ! but of course 

 with no expectation of capturing the hare. Greyhounds I know do 

 capture hares, and, I believe, were used by the Ancients for that 

 purpose ; they are fleet of foot, and dogs capable of great speed, but 

 it seems impossible that these dogs could ever hope to overtake a hare.' 



" I tried to explain to him that beagles ran by scent, and not 



by sight, and that we not infrequently did 'capture' a hare. He 

 thanked me civilly for my information ; but I feel certain that he 

 was by no means convinced, and looked upon the pack of beagles as 

 another sign of the eccentricity of the ordinary {sic) undergraduate." 

 This story exactly presents the attitude not so much of the 

 average Don to undergraduate eccentricity as of the ordinary 

 Philistine, whether Don or undergraduate, to the barbaric beagler, 

 Beaglers are not exactly eccentric as undergraduates, it is more true 

 to say that we are eccentric to them. A recent Master, T. Holland 

 Hibbert, found this out for himself. I used sometimes to look in at 



