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lishment in the Strand, to order a few pair of those 

 most necessary adjuncts to the sporting man's 

 wardrobe previous to leaving town. " Hunting for 

 ever ! " and of all the packs in England, commend 

 me to my old acquaintance, those friends of my boy- 

 hood, the Easyallshire Muggers. I am not sure 

 but that, strictly speaking, the term " mugger " 

 ought only be applied to those packs of hounds 

 which are used for that peculiar pastime which, to 

 again quote the immortal Jorrocks, " is only fit for 

 cripples, and them as keeps donkeys," viz., harriers. 



Be that as it may, the pack I now speak of 

 were, though called muggers, honcl fide foxhounds, 

 and as such, only used in the " doing to death " of 

 that wily animal. 



The country which had as it were given birth to 

 this distinguished pack presented to the hunting 

 man very much the same features as do most parts 

 of England. There were the same number of 

 ditches and dingles to be got over somehow, the 

 same gates which would and would not be opened, 

 the same fences, stiles, and heavers to be cleared, 

 the same woodland parts to be hunted, from which 

 it was next to impossible to get a fox away, and to 

 which every one said he would never come again ; 

 but for all that no one ever kept his word, for there 

 were just the very same number of sportsmen to be 



