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with. The greatest care should be taken to keep tlie country. 

 Coulson always has a hare and ought to have 10s. to £1 when you 

 meet there. — Anon. 



Hares almost extinct. Would be a good thing to put a hare or 

 two down, as the worst poacher has gone. — A. F. P. 



I doubt it — they are all coursers and poaching blackguards in that 

 part.— J. S. C.-E. 



Our best country. Hares just right. Grass. A beagler's 

 paradise. — K. W. 



SwAVESEY. — A ripping country all along the side of the railway. 

 The very worst country for poaching in England. Every one has a 

 lurcher and is proud to kill your hare. Horse-whipping is the only 

 remedy. Very few hares indeed. — A. F. P. 



There is no remedy in any of these places. The long dog firm have 

 a lawful right on certain holdings, and have, of course, elastic con- 

 ceptions of their neighbours' landmarks. There were several about 

 when I was asked out to walk up partridges on that ground last 

 September.— F. C. K. 



As regards the farmers it is interesting to see how many of them 

 are entered as thorough good sportsmen and most hospitable, and by 

 no means remarkable that even these, being human, " by no means 

 object to butter." We all like to have pretty things said to us, at 

 least I respond more or less readily to such treatment, and if the 

 farmers like butter the beaglers Kke bread and butter, and cunning 

 hints are scattered through these pages as to where it is to be 

 had gratis. 



To the rule of giving no names I must make one exception, that 

 of the late J. B. Close, an old rowing Blue, who lived at Little 

 Shelford, hunted and rode his own horses on the tow-path when 

 coaching First Trinity Boats, and took this club to the Head of the 

 Eiver. " J. B." was an all-round sportsman, and the entries con- 

 cerning him are deUghtful, as follows : — 



I. Has been very good to us. Very hospitable and knows well 

 the inner wants of the beagler. 



