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patience, renders him a nuisance in the 

 Field ? Many, many a day's sport is spoilt 

 by the sole circumstance of hounds being 

 over-rode. 



Much mischief is also often done when 

 a fox first goes away. All crowd to the spot 

 where he is halloo'd, before the hounds can 

 possibly get there ; every one being anxious 

 for a good start, fearing Jack so and so will 

 have a better than himself. They are not 

 aware of the injury they are doing by rid- 

 ing over the scent and foiling the ground. 

 It frequently happens at these times the 

 hounds never run him a single yard. If 

 people would only have a little patience, 

 and be cautious where they ride, first al- 

 lowing the pack to settle to their fox, they 

 would have every chance of sport. 



A misery of this sort once happened 

 to me ; a fox was halloo'd away at the 

 farther end of the covert to that where 

 the hounds were, by a man at work, whom 



