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great number of seasons ; lie is a very steady, 

 good hand with hounds, and thoroughly knows 

 his business. 



" On Monday, the 19th, a circumstance oc- 

 curred, which, although I have known several 

 instances in the course of my life, is not of 

 very frequent occurrence — viz. the joining 

 together of two different packs of hounds 

 when running their foxes into the same neigh- 

 bourhood on this day. Sir John Cope's 

 hounds met at Winchheld House, when they 

 drew Tossel Wood, the rest of the Winchheld 

 covers, and Lousy Moor, all blank. They then 

 proceeded to Dogmersfield Park, where they 

 found a fox by the side of the lake. The 

 hounds came away over the park wall, crossing 

 the Farnham and Odiham road, through 

 Varnclell's Coppice to Well, and to Gravelly 

 Wood. Here they fell in with the H. H., with 

 their master, Lord Gifford ; that pack having 

 thrown off at Sutton Common, where they 

 found a fox in the furze, which they brought 

 to Froyle, and on to Gravelly Wood, into 

 which covert their fox was viewed at the same 

 time, and by the same person who had viewed 

 Sir John Cope's fox. Here the two packs 

 joined together, and having settled to one of 

 the foxes, gave him a turn or two round the 



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