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very few seconds more we see a draggled, panting 

 form, with arched back and drooping brush, steaHng 

 along, and but very slowly, beside the straggling 

 boundary fence below us — not surely the same 

 sleek, daring rascal who whisked his brush defiantly 

 in Ned's face this morning, as he bounded from the 

 Alders. But yes ! it is no other, and thither, staunch 

 fox though he was, he is doomed never to return. 



''Tally ho! ellu here! tally ho !" and in response 

 to Dick's cheer the little ladies raise their heads, and 

 catching sight of their foe put an end to his suffer- 

 ings in less time by far than it has taken me to 

 allude to them, and thus did Whoo hoop bring to 

 an end a veritable clinker from Sedgeley Alders ; 

 time, one hour and five minutes — only two very 

 slight checks — and the distance traversed consider- 

 ably over a dozen miles, as from the covert to 

 Hopeby Park, outside which they killed him, it 

 measured nearly that distance as the crow flies. 



The first whip, now nearly dry again, was the next 

 to canter up, and others followed at longer or shorter 

 intervals, until some thirty horsemen in all at length 

 appeared upon the scene ; but three of them, Dick, 

 Charley Sitwell, and I, alone saw the run throughout, 

 and naught but mask, brush, and pads remained of 

 our pilot even when Ned himself reached the end of 

 the chapter in somewhat sorry plight. 



