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that wants tackling In the morning. People 

 talk of hounds racing at night ; how can they 

 after the miles of running they have had during 

 the day ? We reached home about midnight. 

 There was a great oration about it, and next day 

 at Northampton Races it was a subject of much 

 conversation. I agree with Captain Thompson 

 that without a kill there is a disappointment that 

 destroys the pleasure to a great extent. I was 

 quite sick of jumping. Mr. Knightley, Messrs. 

 Cowper, of Farnborough, and G. Hitchcock rode 

 very well indeed, but very few survived to the end. 

 That season Lord Southampton caught his 

 foxes well with the bitches. In the spring we 

 had a very fast thing from Plumpton to Moreton 

 Pinkney, by Ashby Ponds, Ganderton's on the 

 right, and over that nice grass Vale as hard as 

 they could go, over the brook, and pulled him 

 down under an oak tree standing a little way 

 out of the ditch near Woodford. There was a 

 person out in a green coat, none other than George 

 Beers, who was engaged for the next season. 

 Lord Southampton told Beers he had heard that 

 he was free with his tongue to the Field. " I wish 

 you to bear in mind that I shall not allow that 

 here ; I reserve that privilege to myself," he 

 remarked. 



