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who, from his own account saw nothing, 

 while riding his horse as hard as he could 

 go, and as near the tail of the hounds as 

 he could possibly get ! And how should 

 he ? For a man behind the hounds cannot 

 be a judge of what is going on in front ; 

 and is the principal cause (by pressing upon 

 them,) to bring them to a check. 



But still, as I have above stated, great 

 as is the mischief done by persons who 

 over-ride your hounds, you may even put 

 up with it, although very annoying, if they 

 will but refrain from hallooing. There may 

 be some faint hope of improving a field that 

 ride too forward, but a noisy one you can 

 never mend. To prove it, in some mea- 

 sure, I will relate the following fact, — it 

 happened some years ago. I was out cub- 

 hunting, and had found a litter of foxes in 

 some small coverts detached as much as a 

 field or two from each other; a farmer joined 

 us whom I knew to be free with his tongue, 



