TEE EECOLLECTIONS 



OF A 



FOX-HIJNTER. 



CHAPTER I. 



Great Equestrian Feat performed "without a Horse.-— The 

 Author's rapid Promotion. — Reminiscences connected uith 

 Ten Thousand a-year. — The '' Real Original " Fox. — Ac- 

 count of some Morning Calls upon him. — He dies a Do- 

 mesticated Character. — ^Comparative speed of Dogs and 

 Horses. — The Author becomes M. F. H. — A iMaxim on 

 Horsemanship. — Formation of a Kennel of Hounds. — 

 Latitude and Longitude of Hunting Countries. 



It would be difficult to ^ive the exact date 

 when my first predilections for sport had their 

 commencement, but I have some faint recollec- 

 tion of scrambling out of my cot, on to the back 

 of an old favourite hound of my father's, called 

 Partner, which had admittance to the Hall fire, 

 and sivino' an infantile view halloa, which nearlv 

 frightened my nurse into a fit. 



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