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Suffolk, they came to a check all in a mo- 

 ment at a barn near some cross roads ; they 

 were left alone, and made a fling of them- 

 selves, in a perfect circle, without hitting 

 the scent; many gentlemen exclaimed " It 

 is all over now, Tom ; the only chance you 

 have is to make a wide cast." " No," an- 

 swered the huntsman, " if the fox is not in 

 that barn, my hounds ought to be hung." 



Dick Foster, the whipper-in, now hunts- 

 man to Mr. Villebois (and a very good one 

 he is), was ordered to dismount and see if 

 he could discover the fox ; he returned and 

 said he was not there." Tom Rose still 

 was positive ; at last he was viewed on a 

 beam in the barn, and they killed him, after 

 a further run of about a mile. I mention this 

 trivial circumstance to shew you clearly, 

 that if the hounds had been hurried up 

 either of the roads on a wild cast, made 

 by an ignorant huntsman, the fox would 

 inevitably have been lost. They say chang- 



