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the horse carrying him as if that particular animal 

 was specially engaged in bearing the weight of 

 somebody else, within neither the range of his 

 sight nor memory. Whatever obstacle presented 

 itself must be either got through or over — it 

 mattered not which to Martin, so long as he 

 maintained his place : and there he might be seen, 

 creeping over a bank, floundering through a brook, 

 and never clearing anything handsomely ; but 

 always with hounds. 



John Mills. 



