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was the case : we did not find afterwards, 

 although to please them (which was more 

 than they deserved,) I drew till very late. 

 It is nevertheless a bad plan at any time to 

 draw late in the day. I know many masters 

 who make it a rule not to go on after three 

 o'clock, which is a very good one ; in the 

 middle of winter a great deal of misery is 

 often caused by finding too late. You will 

 almost to a certainty be beat, and the pack 

 will not be very easily stopped in the dark. 

 It once happened to me to lose my whole 

 pack ; it was a good scenting day ; we found 

 early, and had a sharp thing of one hour and 

 five minutes without a check ; and as a good 

 deal of it was in covert, I found another 

 fox, had a long run over a country, and run 

 our fox, quite beat, into a small covert, 

 where I thought they were catching him 

 every moment ; but unfortunately another 

 fox was in the same covert, and the hunted 

 one laid down ; it was nearly dark, and I 



