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another occasion when the Buckhounds met at the Blackbirds 

 on Walthani Common, we hear of a young lady displaying 

 ' a specimen of agility in following the hounds through the 

 enclosures as would have surprised Lady Salisbury herself ' — 

 T suppose the same Lady Salisbury who wrote upon archery 

 in the first number of the ' Sporting Magazine,' and who 

 hunted her own harriers. She was burned to death at her 

 writing table. 



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George III. was ' critically exact to time.' At eleven 

 o'clock he used to ride up on his hackney, accompanied by 

 the master of the horse, his equerries and retainers, and any 

 distinguished guests or strangers. His favourite hunters 

 were Hobby and Perfection. The hounds were twenty-four 

 to twenty-six inches, lemon pyes and black and white, with 

 big ears, and could run for half an hour, giving tongue like 

 Big Ben, but they never could have driven like the present 

 foxhound pack. They were always being stopped to let his 



