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end of the run, getting up in time to have a taste 

 of the fox. There were a couple of sisters, one 

 badger-pied, the other black and white, smart- 

 looking bitches, standing about twenty inches, 

 just the stamp for a mountainous district ; and 

 another couple nearly white, with a red ear each, 

 of about the same height, and apparently origi- 

 nally harriers, completed the complement. 



Mr. V , who lives generally near Macchyn- 



leth, and has property also near M d, has 



been unable, from bad health, to hunt his own 

 pack for several years, which used to consist of 

 fifteen couples ; but to oblige the farmers he still 

 keeps a few hounds (in all six couples) for their 

 amusement, being himself incapacitated from 

 joining the sport, with a huntsman, David Jones, 

 now officiating for his first season in that capacity, 

 Avho, as his name denotes, is of original Welsh 

 extraction, and totally unacquainted with the 

 English language. 



Hounds have been kept in Mr. V 's family 



for nearly two hundred years, and even with this 

 short remnant capital sport is afforded, and they 

 kill about three out of five foxes, which, consider- 

 ing that earth-stopping is a thing little if ever 

 attended to, speaks volumes for the prowess of 

 this short pack. 



