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kid gloves with two or three rings over them. Moreover, he 

 had a couple of scarlet- jacketed personal attendants, who 

 each carried a neat folding ladder which, when opened, was 

 some four or five feet high. These ladders were used for the 

 walls, one for the ascent, the other for the descent, and with- 

 out them it would not have been an easy matter for an elderly 

 man to see anything of hounds. Still the sport did not suffer 

 owing to the Master's eccentricities of get-up, and the hunt 

 was remarkably popular in the isleund of Anglesey. 



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