WITH HOUND AND TEREIER 

 IN THE FIELD. 



CHAPTER I. 



EARLY HUNTING EXPERIENCES. 



The graphic stories of the hunting-field told me 

 by my father, the Rev. H. Digby Serrell, are 

 among my earliest recollections. Being a Dorset- 

 shire man, my father hunted all the early part of 

 his life with the Dorset packs, and the names of 

 Mr Farquharson, the Kev. Harry Farr Yeatman, 

 Mr Tudway, Mr Hall, and Mr Drax were house- 

 hold words with the members of his family. As 

 we listened to the tales of those early days, we 

 learned to love the sport so dear to the heart of 

 the narrator, and gained our own first knowledge 

 of hunting from his lips. 



My father was a fine sportsman of the old school, 

 and he had a remarkably quick eye and a wonderful 

 knack of sticking to hounds. One of his favourite 



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