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comfortably on, running until dark, witliout any 

 qualms or queerishness about their stomachs, or 

 thinking about their dinner, -which I have a notion 

 dogs do think about, although perhaps not quite 

 so much as their masters. Be that as it may, the 

 experiment answered my expectations, and my 

 hounds would run till midnight without failing or 

 flagging. 



In our country, and under our circumstances, 

 two hard days awaited us in almost every week 

 throughout the season, when we had to travel the 

 hounds over night (a van being useless in our by- 

 roads), and left off hunting seldom under twenty 

 miles from home, and sometimes thirty. On those 

 days the hounds rarely returned to the home ken- 

 nels until nine o'clock at night. The temporary 

 kennel, from which we hunted our Leicestershire 

 Country, was distant fourteen miles from home, to 

 which the hounds and horses travelled the evening 

 previous to hunting. AVe had then from four to 

 ten miles further to go to our places of meethig 

 the following morning, and it so happened that 

 our foxes seldom ran homewards, the main earths 

 lying in the other direction, so that, at the close of 

 each day, we had tAventy miles — never less — to 

 travel throuorh bv-lanes before the hounds could 

 get their (hnner. This work for a continuance 



