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the white horse;" this was quickly attended to. "Tally-ho" 

 roared out a great ploughman at the bottom of a field. " Yonder 

 he goes down beside the hedge row," gone away with a view hollow 

 from the field. The huntsman now soon made his appearance out 

 of covert, .mth a sound of the horn. The hounds were slipping out 

 in all directions ; the huntsman walking his horse steadily on, not 

 towards the line of scent. This I perceive was to get the body of 

 his pack together ; one hound was straggling down beside the 

 covert towards the scent and the whips neither being up, the hunts- 

 man bawled out " stop that lioimd, stop that hound you on the cock 

 tail horse. D — n that cad, he is asleep." The huntsman now put 

 the hounds on the line of scent, and went off in beautiful style, 

 taking into the lowlands some beautiful large green meadows with 

 sorong rough fences ; they call them " bullfinchers." My horse was 

 re?dy for anything. I came near, but I was very nervous, for some- 

 times I was on his neck, and then back again on the saddle, but I 

 begun to see several falls, which put me a little in better spirits ; 

 thinking I was not the worst rider ; when just to my right hand 

 down came a big gentlemen on a black horse, such a "gruffer; " 

 this made me feel a little queer again. We now soon came to a 

 fence again. I think they called it a " rasper ; " my horse took it 

 In fine style, but by jingo in settling I went over his head such a 

 double -up. I at first thought I was killed, but I foimd myself on 

 my legs running after my horse ; fortunately for me a kind gentle- 

 man caught the rein of my horse's bridle with the handle of his 

 v/hip, and I soon mounted again. We then came to smaller 

 inclosures, but luckily forme the gates were open, and I rode through 

 them (but mind you the hounds were a little getting a head of me 

 now.) We then came to a large wood with a wide brook to leap 

 over ; I was not afraid of water so much as I was of the rough fences, 

 so that I charged this quickly, but my horse stopped short, and I 

 went over his head into the ditch — a very unpleasant situation I can 

 assm-e you ; it was a little muddy too ; as well as wet, and dis- 

 coloured my white " smalls." I was now on one side of the ditch, 

 and my horse on the other side ; but a man a hedging seeing my 

 situation ran and caught my horse and brought him to me, and 

 turned him over the ditch. I then mounted again, giving the man 

 half a crown. I said "I was in a pretty pickle." He replied, 

 " that is nothing at all, su-, two gentlemen got in, horses and all, ten 

 times worse mess than you are, down at the other end of the wood." 

 He added " if I went through the wood a little way, I should come 

 into a ride, and that would bring me out of the gate into an old lane ; 

 there I should be sure to see sometliing of the hounds, for I had quite 

 lost them." Going along this old lane, I saw a man up in a high 

 tree. He said, "you are got behind sir." I replied "yes, lam; 

 can you see the hounds." He answered " yes ; they are two miles 

 ahead ; they are going over Batchelor's high fields, beating away to 

 the common ; if you ride a good pace you will get there in time with 

 the hounds." In riding along this old lane a crow boy the other side 

 of the hedge halloaed " war bog, war bog, sir." " War bog," said 

 I, "what do you mean." (Why sir, if you ride right along there 



