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tions on mere riding to staghounds. ' To hesitate,' he says, 

 ' meant that you were out of it.' Of course this is in a measure 

 true of all riding to hounds when they run fast, but it is 

 especially true of staghounds. Given favourable conditions, 



Charles Strickland, First Whipper-in to the Queen s Houndo, 

 appointed jcly 1, 1894 



pace with staghounds is epidemic — you keep on going fast, 

 going on. 



A good deer, although he may not run a straight point, 



