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STA G- HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



park and young plantations of a gentleman's seat to a large 

 piece of water (Buscott Reservoir), in which Blackback was 

 swimming serenely about. In went the hounds, and I began 

 to feel nervous. Bartlett's ' fine tenor of entreaty and remon- 

 strance now rent the air— it is always one of his great 

 moments — though I never saw any effect produced on the 

 hounds. 



Harvey, meanwhile, blew his horn, trotting promi- 



It was all I COULD DO TO GET ' WiLLIAM ' HOME 



nently up and down the bank, whilst all who knew how 

 cracked their whips. My Wiltshire friends were quite en- 

 tranced with the spectacle, and declared with one accord 

 they would have come miles to see it alone. Blackback, 

 meanwhile, was veering unconcernedly about in the middle, 

 very little in front of Notion, who, ever since she once got a 



' For many years second whipper-in, retired on pension in 1894, and died 

 the same year (see footnote to p. 93). 



