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eager onlookers, who in wonder and delight watched him face 

 the breeze as they had never dared to hope. And, though 

 hounds caught no view, nor even hunted him from covert, they 

 strung out to the horn as rapidly, and settled as determinedly, 



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MAP OF THE BRAUNSTON RUN. 



as though already assured of his brush. So the two big" 

 pastures were done at racing speed : and the brook was reached, 

 where the old canal dam bridges it helpfully. And here some 

 stray villager turned our fox's head southward ; and the lady 

 pack crossed our front. No, not the front of quite all — for even 

 now there were skirmishers over the embankment, while one or 



