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but lots of times, when at a distance, he would be taken for a hare. 

 Worst of all he would have taken from him that which has been the 

 ilex inimitable during the annals of foxhunting as the trophy of 

 prowess. Nevertheless a bob-tailed fox will take a deal more killing 

 than the fellow with a brush. 



I remember in 1858 Lord Waterford's hounds ran a fox to ground 

 near Killeen. The earth-stopper. Tommy Knockmore, took him out, 

 cut oft' half his brush and then let him go. (A week after he gave 

 me the i^iece docked off, and I have it still.) For five or six seasons 

 after did that fox give us capital runs, and, resorting to Killeen, he 

 became, by reason of the "finds," a regular annuity to old Tom, 

 Many a time I saw him going away with his stump stuck straight 

 up in the most grotesque style. He was the bane of Briscoe and 

 Johnny Ryan, for there was no killing him, and I think he must 

 have died of old age. We called him Bobbie. 



