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each fox relates by what mistakes of the himts- 

 man he had saved his life. The justice of the 

 strictures was acknowledged by many Masters 

 of hounds ; and some of them even thanked 

 the author for ha^dng thus cured their hunts- 

 men of faults which they had not been able 

 to correct. The autobiography of ^^ Wiley," 

 the herOj is made the vehicle of conveying a 

 good deal of information on the habits of the 

 fox, which shows the wiiter to be a man of 

 acute observation. 



Among visits that Mr. Smith paid were 

 several to the Duke of Eeaufort and Lord 

 Fitzhardinge, which deserve mention. 



At Badminton he spent a week, and hunted 

 with the Duke's hounds. Long, the huntsman, 

 told the Duke that only two or three couj)les 

 of the hounds could feel the scent; which 

 seemed to be the case, as they had then 

 hunted five days Tvdthout killing. Dis Grace 

 asked Mr. Smith to speak with Long about 

 it in his presence. Accordingly he said to 



