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— I have, as I before observed, received a great 

 deal of pleasure in hunting with Mr. Villebois' 

 hounds. From Alpha to Omega there is — if I 

 may be allowed the expression — a propriety 

 attending the establishment, as well as a cor- 

 rectness of conduct in everything relating to it, 

 which are highly gratifying to a sportsman's 

 eye, and which cannot be too closely imitated. 

 The civility and respectful behaviour of the 

 servants are beyond all praise, and whether it 

 be by the command of their master, or whether 

 it be from their own sense of propriety, I will 

 not take upon myself to determine, but an oath, 

 or a coarse expression of any sort, in the field 

 is never heard to escape them under the most 

 trying circumstances that may occur. 



"Mr. Villebois' country is of very Mr. vniebois' 

 considerable extent, and so it ought counti r- 

 to be for four regularly advertised fixtures 

 every week, and very often a by-day on the 

 Friday. It commences at a village called 

 Crondall, to the right of the road from Odiham 

 to Farnham, and reaches to Southampton in 

 one direction, and to Eomsey in another. It 

 is also of considerable width. Almost the 

 whole of it comes under the denomination of 

 a woodland country, though much of it has a 

 very fox-hunting appearance, and were it not 



