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hunt, and the stock of foxes they have, — 

 but no fox should be counted before the 

 1st of November, or after the 10th of 

 March. I remember one season being very 

 successful in cub-hunting ; this was report- 

 ed to the invincible huntsman, (Mr. J. A.) 

 who was a little jaloux, — his answer was 

 " I never kill them while they suck." 

 There is certainly no merit in killing cubs ; 

 a pack of beagles, if there were no hares, 

 would seldom miss one. 



A most extraordinary instance of dis- 

 cipline in hounds occurs to me, which I 

 ought to have mentioned when speaking 

 of that unrivalled sportsman, the late Mr. 

 Meynell. He met in the Harborough 

 country, at a small patch of gorse on the 

 side of a hill, in a very large pasture field : 

 the hounds feathered as they went in, and 

 found instantly. The covert being only 

 about two acres, and open, Mr. Meynell 

 immediately saw that the fox was in danger 

 of being chopped ; he therefore called out 



