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master's face ; it was next to an impossibility to call 

 them off, and the only means to persuade them to 

 proceed, was for Mr. Musters to ride several miles out 

 of his way to conduct these faithful creatures to the 

 inn where they were to be lodged for the night. The 

 second anecdote is of a hound-bitch called Frenzy, 

 which came to me in 1834, with some others, from 

 Overton, in Hampshire, where the kennel of the Vine 

 hounds is situated ; being on heat when she arrived, 

 she was accordingly shut up separate, and in due 

 course of time being taken to exercise with the rest of 

 the pack, availed herself of the first opportunity of 

 decamping, and arrived, as a letter from Adamson, 

 the huntsman, informed me, on the second day, having 

 travelled through four counties, a distance of upwards 

 of one hundred miles ; she was immediately sent back 

 to the place of her former destination, to which she 

 returned safe, and after some weeks, produced a litter 

 of whelps, which she reared ; but no sooner were they 

 weaned, than she undertook a second visit to her native 

 place, with equal celerity ; she was accordingly sent 

 back again, and having arrived within ten miles of the 

 end of her journey, was tied up by the carrier in a 

 stable, with a cord, which she bit in two during the 

 night, and, for the third time, retraced her steps ; it 

 was then considered useless to be at any more trouble 

 about her, and she was allowed to end her days where 

 she had commenced them. Another curious circum- 

 stance occurred about forty or fifty years ago, when 

 the Holderness country was hunted by one of the 

 Bethel family, of Rise. Some draft hounds were sent 

 into Kent from Mr. B's kennel, by a sailing vessel 



