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you will go plump into that there bog, and you will want one of our 

 master's cart horses to draw your horse out but if you rides clos':, to 

 that hedge there is no bog at all." " Thank you my lad." " Bog, 

 ah ! I have heard talk of bogs ; I don't want to get in those places ; 

 I have had bog enough to day," thought I. Well, all at once I came 

 out on the common ; there I saw a lot of foot peoxDle running out of 

 a brickyard halloaing ' ' tallyho . " " A\\41 ' ' said I . " Kight throitgh 

 the breaks there, !Sii-." "I see him," but these brickmaker chaps 

 began to laugh one to the other, saying "he has had a summerset at 

 any rate. ' ' Another said, ' ' he has been christened and no mistake ' ' 

 I looked to my left, and there I saw the hounds coming through the 

 breaks. I was now well up again, and all on an open common, 

 where we ran him through heath and breaks for full two miles, and 

 to my delight without a fence to jump, and ran into him in the open. 

 " Who whoop " was the halloa, " Who whoop ; " the huntsman took 

 the fox fi'om the hounds, and laid him on a hawthorn bush, cut the 

 head, bnish, &c., ofE, the hounds baying him at the time. He then 

 threw him to the hounds, and they devoured him most eagerly. JNty 

 friend now recognised me again. " Ah, Charley, my boy " said he, 

 * ' I am glad to see you in at the death ; beautiful run ; splendid 

 Chase ; one hour and forty minutes," [delightful said I] " but you 

 have had a summerset I see ; you are not alone ; lots of falls to-day, 

 Chailey." My attention was now drawn to the field to see the con- 

 trast between the meet at Moiint Pleasant and the "kill" on the 

 common ; only about forty gentlemen were in at the death, and they 

 were all bedaubed and splashed with mud ; and the hounds were not 

 like the same animals ; they were so bedraggled and spattered over. . 

 We got off the common on the turnpike ; lit our cigars ; and rode 

 steadily home, joking and talking over the different scenes of the 

 day. 



FARNC0M3E a CO., LEWEl 



