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what discordant, reception that was accorded him, 

 and speedily took to his heels. After the customary 

 law had been allowed him, Goodall threaded his way 

 through the dense crowd of horsemen, carriages, 

 and pedestrians in his usual easy, clever way, and 

 laid the hounds on. Quickly they picked up the 

 scent, and Avent away a screamer, leaving Stoke 

 Park on the right, in the direction of Farnham Royal. 

 At the first fence several good men went wrong ; 

 loose horses galloped along, and I noticed a hat 

 trampled well into the mud. My horse was as fresh 

 as paint, and jumped the first fence in so light- 

 hearted a manner that had I not had a good grip of 

 the saddle, I might have gone wrong too. If I did 

 ride too close to hounds once or twice, it wasn't my 

 fault, for the grey would not be denied; his motto 

 was " Forrard on ! forrard on ! " Then leaving 

 Stoke Park on the right, we ran away to Burnham 

 Beeches, skirting the woods and going in the direc- 

 tion of Beaconsfield, running up to Wilton Park ; 

 then away through a difficult country past Gold 

 Hill, on by a dilapidated windmill in Outfield, near 

 Chalfont St. Giles ; away like steam in the direc- 

 tion of Amersham ; and then on at a racing pace 

 to Cheneys, near Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire, 

 where Honesty was run into and taken, after a slap- 

 ping run of two hours and three-quarters over a 

 difficult line of country. 



