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CHAPTER VI. 



" Hai! ! greenwood shades, that stretching far, 

 Defy e'en summer's noontide power." 



Bloomfield. 

 " We come, ye grove:^, ye hills, we come. 

 The vagrant fox, shall hear his doom, 

 And dread our jovial train." 

 Ibid. 



COVERS MAKING THE MOST OF A ROUGH COUNTRY. — CORSE COVERS IN 



NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. ARTIFICIAL COVERS. SOWING, CUTTING AND 



BURNING. — FAGOT OR DEAD COVERS. — DESTRUCTION OF RAT5BITS BY 



FIRE MR. MEYNELL'S HOUNDS — AND JACK RAVEN. DIVIDING TUF. 



TWO PACKS FROM THE FIRST. MR. HALL's HOUNDS. — DRAWING HOUNDS 



ACCORDING TO SIZE AND PACE. — ON WHIPPEr'S-IN. THE OLD SCHOOL AND 



THE NEW THE MODERN HUNTSMAN. TURNED DOWN FOXES A 



frenchman's IDEAS OF WHAT A HUNTSMAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN 200 

 YEARS AGO.— GENTLEMEN HUNTSMEN.-ON HANDLING A PACK OF HOUNDS. 

 LIFTING, BAD, — BLOOD ESSENTIAL. — WILL. TODD'S OPINION OF A FINE 



morning. — disappointment in killing foxes. — shaw beat by 

 candle-light. — the fox and many friends — curious misfortune 



with a badger. — accidents happening to hounds in chace mr. 



Hodgson's hounds at speeton cliffs. — on horsing the men. — 



ANECDOTE OF MR. WHITWORTH AND JACK WOOD. MR TILBURY's 



system OF LETTING HUNTERS.— HUNTING A COUNTRY IMPARTIALLY. 



THE FARMERS NEAR KENILWORTH, OR THE "Icx tally honiS."—AVEC- 



DOTE OF MR. CORBETT. FROST AND PHYSICING HOUNDS. — HUNTING IN 



THE SNOW. — A RUN IN BERKSHIRE WITH MR. WARDe's HOUNDS. — THE 

 PYTCHLEY HOUNDS HUNTING IN A DEEP SNOW. — J. WALKER AND THE 



•FIFE.— REMARKS ON SCENT. — HOLDERNESS A WET COUNTRY OLD 



TOM CARTER AND LORD MIDDLETON — CAUSES OF SCENT FAILING. — 

 WILD GARLIC. — CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF WILDGEESE ON THE YORKSHIRE 



WOLDS TRAVELLING HOUNDS IN A CARAVAN. — FEEDING ON THE ROAD 



WHEN RETURNING FROM A LONG DAY.— SPRING HUNTING.— THE 



PYTCHLEY WOODLANDS MARTEN CATS OCCASIONALLY FOUND WITH 



HOUNDS. — FOXES NOT SO DESTRUCTIVE AS GENERALLY REPRESENTED 



CONTENTS OF A FOX's KENNEL. TRICK OF A BAGMAN DISCOVERED. 



ACCOUNT OF A GOOD RUN WITH HIS GRACE OF RUTLAND'S HOUNDS IN 

 1805. HUNTING LATE PREJUDICIAL TO SPORT. — CONCLUSION 



Among the numerous collateral branches appertaining 

 to the science of hunting, we may, without any apology, 



