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can expect by tradition or custom ; but Mr. 

 Guest lias practically made it a six-days-a-week 

 country, as he hunts four days according to his 

 guarantee, and twice a week he hunts his own 

 private pack, keeping thirty-one couples for 

 this generous departure from regulations, and he 

 carries out the whole at his own expense. 

 The wisdom of the course has been seen, as 

 a country cannot be too well hunted, and 

 foxes, being better preserved, are more plentiful 

 than ever. 



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" To be able to hunt six days a week, 

 with an average of five meets at easy distance, 

 is not to be despised, with a run over grass 

 pretty nearly certain every day. Mr. Merthyr 

 Guest is most appropriately at the head of this 

 grand Hunt, as he has hunted here from boy- 

 hood, knows every one, and every inch of the 

 country. His consort. Lady Theodora Guest, 

 should also be considered the first lady of the 

 country in the cause of fox-hunting, as her 

 ladyship originated the Hunt Servants' Benefit 

 Society, the subject being first broached through 



