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when they killed their fox at Newnham Village. It runs 

 through some pretty meadows; is in itself but a neat jump 

 that may be taken at a stand ; and yet, given the opportunity, 

 many horses invariably prefer to jump into it. I stayed only 

 to see a grey horse splash the water aloft, and a brown 

 disappear from view, while a black went on with a clever 

 recovery wrapped round his neck. I wanted to get on after 

 hounds ; so, not being paid to make fun of other people in 

 misfortune which I dared not share, I left a scene that I am 

 told lasted at least twenty minutes longer, and galloped in 

 excellent company to the nearest bridge. This took us beyond 

 the village, and up to Everdon Stubbs. By the time we were 

 through the little wood, hounds were rising the hill as if for 

 the bigger covert of Stowe. But their fox could do no more. 

 The first twenty minutes had beaten him : after that he could 

 never shake himself clear of hounds — and they killed him in 

 fifty, the point being some five and a half miles. Of a large 

 field the following were some few : Lord Penrhyn, Miss 

 Alderson, Mr. and Mrs. Blacklock, Mr. and Mrs. Craven, Mrs. 

 Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Knightley, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. 

 Whaley ; Lords Capell, Euston, Alfred Fitzroy, Fielding ; Sir 

 Rainald Knightly, Sir W. Humphrey ; Revs. V. Knightley, 

 Evans ; General Magennis, Major Palmer ; Captains Black- 

 wood, Close, Atherton, Jacobson, Greville, Faber, Orr, Riddell ; 

 Messrs. Atherton, Apthorpe, Burton Byass, G. Campbell, 

 Clark, Bulwer Flower, Fuller, J. Fitzwilliam, Douglas Pennant, 

 Corbett Holland, Hartopp, Mildmay, Grazebrook Bromwick, 

 Key, Colledge, Goodman, Oldrey, Manning, Jennaway, Russell, 

 Waring, Watson, Waterfield, Roper, Palmer, Sheppard, Parsons, 

 Whitton, Scriven, Watts, &c. 



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Wintry beyond all that could be held appropriate to the final 

 week of February was the look-out on Monday the 25th, at the 

 hour that men (and I suppose the purer sex too) mostly choose 



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