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a fine run, and fast at times. It is curious how differently beagles 

 hunt the line of a fox to the line of a hare. They are not nearly as 

 keen on it, being unaccustomed to the scent of fox, and they don't 

 pack together the same way, and the music is not nearly as good ; only 

 a few hounds throw their tongues, and that in an uncertain, jerky, 

 shrill way. Hunting a fox or running a drag with beagles are not 

 conducive to the steadiness of a pack." 



So much for fox-beagling, which, if very good fun, and, as is of 

 course the case in the Fen, no breach of the unwritten law, is 

 none the less, as above remarked, not quite in accordance with the 

 canons of " science," which would enter every pack of hounds to but 

 one quarry. But I must let Carr-EUison continue his own yarn. 



" I was always keen on hunting something or other, and when I 

 went up to Trinity in October 1886, A. M. Allgood of Trinity Hall 

 (he is now hunting the Hay don Foxhounds in Northumberland and 

 showing good sport), who was one of the few men I knew up, and 

 who lived at Ingram in Northumberland, only four miles away from 

 Hedgeley, said to me, when I told him I did not know what to take 

 up in the way of outdoor sports, ' Why not try beagling ? They are 

 meeting to-morrow at Quy Hall.' So I agreed to go, and have never 

 regretted it, and gave up all my time during the winter months to it 

 from then till I went down. It is a fine healthy sport, and under 

 AUgood's tuition I soon learnt something of the etiquette, etc., and 

 also a lot of the lore of hunting." 



I myself also was always keen on hunting something, and when I 

 came up to Caius an old gentleman, as I should then have called 

 him, though I don't suppose he could have been much older than I 

 am now (and I now like to feel that I have not quite said " good- 

 bye" to my youth), was my fellow-passenger. He was a Colonel 

 Carr, commanding the depot of the 36th (Herefordshire) Eegi- 

 ment at AVorcester and a friend of my father's ; he was also a sort 

 of uncle once removed, having married the sister of my aunt by 

 marriage. So (ordering myself, I hope, lowly and reverently to my 



