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complished which he had once begun. It is, however, 

 fair to say that his huntsman had his full share of the 

 trouble. He had the work of breaking the new pack 

 into the ways of wild deer hunting, which, as shall be 

 seen, are not to be learned from the chase of the carted 

 deer or fox. A single old hound, "Wellington," had 

 by chance been apart from the old pack before the 

 outbreak of madness; and with "Wellington" alone 

 to teach the young hounds their work did Arthur Heal 

 somehow contrive in a few months to make the new 

 pack almost equal to the old. But there were bitter 

 tears in the kennel when the warrant was issued for the 

 execution of the veterans, and the constant vigilance 

 and anxiety (the risk apparently was never thought 

 of) told not a little on master and men. The season 

 was continued into April, 1879, frost having stopped 

 hunting for nearly a month. In all there were seventy- 

 four hunting days and fifty-six deer killed. 



The stag-hunting season of 1879 opened under 

 better auspices, and was made memorable by the 

 visit of the Prince of Wales on the 22nd of August. 

 The whole country was of course extraordinarily ex- 

 cited, and a gigantic field assembled, which seemed to 

 promise little chance of sport. Nevertheless there 

 was, thanks to Mr. Snow, of Oare, a good though not 



