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CHESTER’S STORY.

As foxes are scarce in our country, I alone could
be found to travel here, and having been hunted
only one season, I am, from my own experience,
but ill qualified to reply to your question, as
to the huntsman. I have as yet escaped from
being hunted by him, but I do hear that he is
in all respects most excellent. Unfortunately for
him, but fortunately for us, he was lately dis-
abled by the fracture of a bone of his leg; and
consequently could not come with the hounds
when they hunted the last week in the Nampt-
wich country. For reasons to be given hereafter,
I had rarely lain in coverts of late, and had
preferred lying in hedge-rows. I happened, how-
ever, to be lying in a covert one day, when I
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