DEDICATION 



To W. H. A. Wharton, Esq., M.F.H. 



My dear Mr Wharton, — It seems a happy 

 accident that this little book of hunting memo- 

 ries should be going through the Press as you 

 are commencing your twenty-sixth season as 

 Master of the Cleveland, and whilst congratulat- 

 ing you on your twenty-five years of mastership, 

 I take the opportunity to dedicate my book to 

 you. 



I am reminded, if indeed I needed the re- 

 minder, that it was in Cleveland I first learned 

 to love hunting, and to appreciate that noble 

 animal, the foxhound; that in Cleveland I have 

 seen some of the best sport of a fairly " good 

 innings " of fox-hunting ; and that much of that 



sport has been seen in your company. 



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