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scent on the right-liand side of the road, ran 

 for twenty-eight minutes across the finest grass 

 country possible, and then ran into their fox. 

 His lordship, who was the only man quite 

 close to the Master, was much pleased and ex- 

 cited, exclaiiiiing, "Capital! capital! TU give 

 you a character" (for Mr, Smith had men- 

 tioned his reply to Lord Eosslyn in the i^ew 

 Forest). The run lasted fifty-five minutes, 

 and his lordship has often since said that it 

 was the best that he ever saw; in fact, a better 

 could not be, looking at the fine grass pace 

 and time, and there being but one check. 



JN'ot long after this, the Master had sup- 

 plied himself with proper whippers-in, but not 

 with a huntsman, although he took every pos- 

 sible means to find one; whether his efi'orts 

 were counteracted by any one, he cannot take 

 on him to say. At the first meet after this 

 they had another famous run, when, strange as 

 it may sound, not one man besides himself 

 ever saw the hounds after the first five mi- 



