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that good sportsman George Bird, have just 

 been deprived liy death of their new Master, 

 Mr. D'Avigdor. By his death the hunt has 

 ■ sustained a great loss. He had been Master 

 liut a very short time, and had assumed the 

 reins of office at a time when such a man 

 was badly wanted. 



To go on into the adjoining county of 

 Sussex, one may get some fine sporting runs 

 with the Warnham, and either Dorking (where 

 the kennels are) or Horsham are very acces- 

 sible places for these hounds. With the 

 Enfield Chase (Colonel Somerset's) I never 

 had the pleasure of going, but should imagine 

 that they must be rather cramped for room. 



A somewhat erroneous notion seems to 

 prevail with regard to a deer's sagacity. Mr. 

 Jorrocks, we know, likens the hunting of the 

 deer to the " 'unting of a hass," but, as a 

 matter of fact, a deer is l)y no means a 

 fool. Witness the clever way, for instance, 

 in which a hunted stag will go and push 

 up another to take his place l^efore hounds. 

 When faddists talk of the cruelty of stag- 



