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importuued. We must, therefore, fain be content with what we 

 have got, which, by the way, clearly shows no connection with the 

 older legendary pack to which Mr. Eouse Ball alludes. That there 

 was such a pack is, however, suggested by the fact of there being 

 a corresponding pack at Christ Church at the same period. As I 

 have said, the two Universities have a most extraordinary faculty 

 for doing the same things at the same time, and in those days the 

 Eton Hunt already existed, and Old Etonians must have come up to 

 both places with a demand for University beagling. 



At any rate we see that there were then, as always, those filled 

 with the " barbarous " love of hunting, and how from that motive 

 beagling arose and has since become organised, and that there are now 

 an increasing number of poor man's hunts all over the country. What 

 is bred in the bone must come out in tlie hoof. 



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