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or whether I handed over Hall the same number of hounds as Pease 

 handed over to me, and got paid by Hall for the surplus, but think 

 something about this must appear in the books I left. 



VI. Peroration 



I found the hunting knowledge I gained with the T.F.B. of the 

 greatest value to me afterwards when I became amateur Whip to the 

 late Walter Selby, who hunted a rough but very sporting country, in 

 the north-west corner of Northumberland, where foxes take some 

 killing, and also when I whipped for nine seasons to a very sporting 

 pack in Eoxburghshire, The Jed Forest Foxhounds. Beagling teaches 

 you the easiest way and the quickest to run up a hill, and also teaches 

 you not to burst over a heavy plough and to stick to the furrow, and 

 what is easiest for a man is easiest for a horse. Hunting beagles 

 teaches you to have patience, and to leave your hounds alone. 

 When I was up, at the end of each hunting term, the Master of the 

 T.F.B. used to be glad to let any member of the T.F.B. have a few 

 couple of the hounds to take home and hunt, if he knew that they 

 would not be spoilt. If they were properly taken care of it was 

 much better for them than remaining at Cambridge, and as the 

 Master generally took ten or twelve couple himself and Floate the 

 kennelman, there was an additional reason for securing walks for 

 the remainder of the pack. Allgood and I got some to take north 

 with us from Arthur Francis Pease, who was Master the first two 

 years I was up, but I will mention this again later on. 



It would be very interesting to know how many men at present 

 hunting foxhounds in Great Britain or abroad, or acting as amateur 

 Whips, learnt their hunting with beagles, and still more interesting 

 if one could learn how many of them were first entered with 

 the T.F.B. 



Beagling is a fine sport, and a healthy one, and within the reach 

 of the poor man's pocket, and nothing is finer than to hear a 

 real musical pack, on a good line, on a good scenting day, throwing 

 their tongues for all they are worth. Never keep a silent or nearly 

 silent beagle; they are quite out of place. If you are breeding 

 your own hounds, you must first go for nose, staunchness, and 



