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convenient for me to bring the hounds here 

 the day after to-morrow.' 



' Pray do, my dear fellow. We have a lot of 

 cubs, and Charlie is very keen to have them 

 bustled about a bit — the Carr is chock full of 

 them.' 



' I wonder what is the matter with Mr. 

 Miller,' said Mrs. Going to her spouse, after 

 Reginald and Acton had gone that night. ' He 

 seems ten years older ; he has lost his high 

 spirits entirely.' 



' Yes, I noticed it,' said the General, ' but 

 he is as nice as ever. I wish there were more 

 like him.' 



At half-past four on Saturday morning 

 Reginald was at kennels ready to start for 

 Foxton. 



' Let them out,' said he, as he sat on his 

 horse close to the kennel-door. Out they 

 tumbled, one atop of the other, quite wild with 

 joy. Bonnybell came with a run and nearly 

 landed on to his thigh ; old Monarch could not 

 refrain from a deep wow, wow. There is 



