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Master of the Hounds is a modern parallel 
which at once suggests itself. The hound 
breeder, master or huntsman, knows the 
advantage of getting each farmer in the hunt 
country to receive a puppy 
LETTING GRASS LANDS: DAMAGE BY IIORSES 
We find in the agreements relative to 
the letting of grass lands in certain counties 
stipulations that prove recognition of the 
fact that horses cause peculiar damage to 
pasture 
In Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, 
Huntingdonshire and Denbighshire, and 
doubtless in other parts of England. it has 
long been customary to restrict the number 
of horses which may be grazed on any given 
area 
The following details are taken from the 
auctioneer’s bills for the letting of ‘Crow's 
Marshes” in Norfolk a few years ago :— 
Lot | Names of Marshes Contents ape oe 
A. R. P. 
1 | Big Thurston Marsh.. te 26 3 9 5 
2 | Thurston Hill Marsh a 18 I 9 3 
3 | Thurston Fifteen Acre Marsh I4 3 7 3 
4 | Two Marshes over Brick-Arch 34.0 9 6 
5 | Bill Thurston Marsh ar 23 I 36 "6 
6 | Fowler's Marsh i ch Ig 0 35 4 
The above shows that, on an average, not 
