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turned right-handed and set their heads straight 

 for a brook. Having made up my mind I raced 

 down, jumping a fence into the meadow and 

 charged the brook, and was no sooner over than 

 I turned round and called out : " Send him at 

 it ! " The Prince rode readily at it and jumped 

 the brook in gallant style. The pack ran up to 

 Blakesley Village and did not do much after- 

 wards. His Royal Highness was charmed ; he 

 ■declared that he had never jumped such a good 

 piece of water in his life. Lord Royston and 

 another gentleman in attendance got into trouble 

 over the same place. The Prince informed me 

 that Lord Royston was not content with fewer 

 than two falls in a day ! The weather was very 

 hot, and no sport of any account followed. 



In addition to being pilot I was timekeeper, 

 and the time came for the Prince to leave for 

 the station, when he expressed himself very kindly 

 and left for the train. 



The honour of being within speaking distance 

 of the Prince did not again fall to my lot for 

 twenty vears after that day, when His Royal 

 Highness came to stay with Sir Thomas Hesketh 

 at Easton Neston, and hunted from there, on 

 which occasion he came and shook hands with 

 nie and spoke most cordially. 



