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sequence, other people's, and incidentally, to 

 injure hounds. Only the hound man can appre- 

 ciate at its true value the difference it made 

 to the pack I have been writing about between 

 killing that fox and being taken home after 

 such a disappointing morning; and I shall not 

 have written this chapter in vain if here and 

 there it causes a few men to remember to give 

 hounds a chance on that most critical of days, 

 the first open day after a month's frost. 



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