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... Meet - Cub - Hunting - The Old Fox Again ! A Fast Gallop over the Walls - The Charm of Uncertainty - Fliers of the Hunt - A Narrow Escape - A Check - A Reliable Hound - Failure of Scent - An Excellent Tonic . 98 120 1 CONTENTS . xi ...
... Meet - Cub - Hunting - The Old Fox Again ! A Fast Gallop over the Walls - The Charm of Uncertainty - Fliers of the Hunt - A Narrow Escape - A Check - A Reliable Hound - Failure of Scent - An Excellent Tonic . 98 120 1 CONTENTS . xi ...
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... meet on equal terms . I was somewhat surprised to see on the club table the Times , the Pall Mall Gazette , and other papers . These wonderful specimens of nineteenth - century literature contrast strangely with a place that in many ...
... meet on equal terms . I was somewhat surprised to see on the club table the Times , the Pall Mall Gazette , and other papers . These wonderful specimens of nineteenth - century literature contrast strangely with a place that in many ...
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... meet is he who either by natural insight or by the trained habit of his mind is able to look upon all mortals with eyes unprejudiced by outward show and circumstance , judging them by character alone . Such a man may not be understood ...
... meet is he who either by natural insight or by the trained habit of his mind is able to look upon all mortals with eyes unprejudiced by outward show and circumstance , judging them by character alone . Such a man may not be understood ...
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... destroying him . We are talking of two or three hundred years ago , when the stag was the animal usually hunted by hounds on the Cotswolds and in other parts of England . Our village is a favourite meet of the V.W.H. foxhounds.
... destroying him . We are talking of two or three hundred years ago , when the stag was the animal usually hunted by hounds on the Cotswolds and in other parts of England . Our village is a favourite meet of the V.W.H. foxhounds.
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... meet was held at " the Court , " " his lordship " would make the fox pass in front of the drawing - room windows , " For , " said he , " I have several friends coming from London to see the hunt . " In a hunting district such as this ...
... meet was held at " the Court , " " his lordship " would make the fox pass in front of the drawing - room windows , " For , " said he , " I have several friends coming from London to see the hunt . " In a hunting district such as this ...
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