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on a bad scenting day, when unable to go 

 the best pace, but brings them to a check, 

 and by incautiously riding amongst them 

 disables many, is unhappily a circumstance 

 but too well calculated to ruffle and de- 

 range the best of tempers ; for who could 

 refrain on such an occasion from speaking 

 rather warmly ? " So jealous are some men 

 (said a distinguished huntsman to me the 

 other day at the covert side,) that they will 

 not even allow my Lord's hounds to work 

 with a hunting scent, although they have 

 every disposition to do so." When such an 

 incident occurs, the Field, as a body, ought 

 to interfere, and not suffer the sport of the 

 day to be marred by the malevolence or ig- 

 norance of every individual who chooses to 

 over-ride the hounds. And is it not rather 

 too much to expect a master of hounds, on 

 all occasions, to be under the disagreeable 

 necessity of calling to account every stranger, 

 whose too great eagerness and want of 



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