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nor was one tenth part of the money ex- 

 pended on the establishment. The breed- 

 ing of hounds, comparatively speaking, was 

 very little attended to; and the servants 

 were mounted on horses of inferior value. 

 Few packs hunted oftener than three times 

 a week ; they certainly had long runs, and, 

 (if you believe the stories of old sports- 

 men,) killed their foxes at great distances 

 from the places where they found them, — 

 but they all allowed it was often tedious ; 

 and about St. Thomas's day, Reynard com- 

 monly escaped in the dark. 



In modern times, the system of hunting 

 is so much improved, so much more atten- 

 tion is paid to the condition of hounds and 

 their style of work, that, in this enlightened 

 age, a master of hounds thinks it a reflec- 

 tion on his judgment if one hound in his 

 pack is detected in a fault. The men, too, 

 are well mounted ; and none but servants 

 who conduct themselves in every respect 



