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ing countries is much against hounds ; from 

 a good scenting country to a bad one cer- 

 tainly is against them, but from a bad one 

 to a good one I should imagine to be quite 

 the reverse. Sam Lawley, at the time he 

 hunted the late Lord Vernon's hounds, 

 when he went into the Bosworth country, 

 had nothing to do but ride as fast as he 

 could ; it was all racing, heads up and sterns 

 down ; but when they returned home to 

 an inferior scenting country, it was some 

 time before they settled to their usual way 

 of hunting. I knew a pack that went from 

 Hampshire to a good scenting part of Suf- 

 folk and Essex, where the cubs were all 

 taken or destroyed, it not being known any 

 one would hunt the country ; notwithstand- 

 ing these disadvantages, subsequent to the 

 first of November, they killed 14 brace of 

 foxes successively, and most of them with 

 good runs. I attributed their great sport 

 to a favourable change of country, but they 



