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commenced. I will relate to you ano- 

 ther anecdote, bearing upon this point. 

 Being a good deal annoyed by some hounds, 

 which often disturbed a covert belong- 

 ing to the late Lord Maynard, I men- 

 tioned the circumstance to his Lordship, 

 who was a strict preserver of foxes, and 

 one of the best of men ; he said, " if you 

 insist upon it I will send them a written 

 discharge ; but I, as an old sportsman, would 

 advise you to arrange with them in a milder 

 way ; it is a bad precedent, and they may 

 retaliate by instigating persons to send you 

 a similar discharge in another part of your 

 hunt, and annoy you very considerably." 



A man may have too great an extent 

 of country for his establishment, and so 

 give permission to another pack for a time, 

 to draw some of his distant coverts. It 

 may happen at a future time he may want 

 them, or another person who succeeds 

 him, with a larger establishment, may hunt 



