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country like this possesses when a fox does 

 leave the coverts, persons blessed with good 

 sight can view him a long way, and a little 

 ' telegraphing' in some degree makes up for a 

 bad scent ; but this requires to be judiciously 

 attended to, or a fresh fox may save the life of 

 a beaten one, and too much hallooing is doubt- 

 less very injurious to hounds. 



i: We had no sport on the day on which 

 these hounds met at Farley Mount : three 

 brace of foxes, an immense tract of woodland, 

 and no scent, are combinations sufficient to 

 accouit for it ; but I must not leave unnoticed 

 a monument which I perceived had The 

 stood ' the ragings of the pitiless paSey 

 storm' for many years. It was erected, Mount - 

 as I an informed, by Sir P. St. John, to the 

 memory of a favourite horse who leaped into 

 a chalk-pit with him when following the 

 hounds, and although the pit was a great 

 depth, both escaped unhurt, and the horse 

 aftervards won the Hunters' Stakes at Win- 

 chester. 



" Cn reference to the Racing Calendar, I 

 perceive that Mr. St. John's ch. horse Fox- 

 hunter won 50 guineas at Winchester, and the 

 same mm at Reading in 1740, and also similar 

 amouits at each of those places in the follow- 



monu- 

 ment on 



