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that he brought forth would have been fit to lead 

 a choir with. 



But there is soon other music to be heard, and 

 the wood resounds with the music produced by Jack 

 Lambert, not a soft, melodious voice like that of 

 Slack, but a screech that only Lambert could pro- 

 duce, as he views the fox across the bottom of the 

 riding. He was as famous for his view holloa as 

 Slack was for his soft musical voice ; both were quite 

 first-rate in their way, and both were sweet to hear, 

 but they differed from each other in sweetness. 

 Lambert having thus given the key-note, the whole 

 orchestra is soon in tune : first one hound produces 

 a note, then another, till the whole pack are well 

 together, and produce such a crash of music as is 

 not to be heard even at the opera house sweet 

 melody indeed, and such as nothing but a pack of 

 hounds can produce. Talkers leave off talking, and, 

 intent upon more important business, hurry off to 

 where Lambert has viewed the fox away. There 

 is a general scurry and crash, and a decided inclina- 

 tion amongst some of the Melton men, who are as 

 keen as Durham mustard, to be a little too keen. Old 

 Slack is soon out of the wood, and, with a polite 

 touch of his hat and in the civilest possible way, 



