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have not seen him ; but / smelt him here this 

 morninc^, when I came to serve my sheep." 



Another instance was this : — we were trying 

 with some deer-hounds for an out-lying stag, 

 when we saw a fellow running towards us in 

 his shirt : we immediately concluded that we 

 should hear some news of the st^g, and set out 

 joyfully to meet him. Our first question was, if 

 he had seen the stag .'' " No, sir, I have not seen 

 him; hut my wife dreamt as how she saw him. 

 father nights 



Once a man hallooed us back a mile, only to 

 tell us we were right before.) and we lost the 

 fox by it. 



A gentleman, seeing his hounds at fault, rode 

 up to a man at plough, and with great eagerness 

 asked him if he had seen the fox. " The fox, 

 sir.?*" — " Yes, d — n you, the fox ! did you never 

 see a fox .''" — " Pray, sir, if I may be so bould, 

 what sort of a looking creature may he be ? has 

 he short ears^ and a long tail f — " Yes?'' — 

 " Why then I can assure you, sir, I have seen 

 no such thing. ''"' 



We are agreed that hounds ought not to be 

 cast, as long as they are able to hvint ; and 

 though the idea that a hunted fox never stops is 

 a very necessary one to a fox-hunter, that he 



