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Suffolk), Mr. Donovan, Sir Charles and Miss Smith, 

 Miss Hunt, the Misses Phillips, Capt. Jay, his son, 

 and grandson, who is being trained up in the way 

 he should go, and no mistake ; this youthful per- 

 former already knows his way about, and should 

 with such tuition make a first-rate horseman when 

 he arrives at man's estate ; Mr. Grossman, Mr. Rod- 

 well, Mr. Dupont, Miss Nicholls, a young lady who 

 rides gracefully and well to hounds, and is invariably 

 mounted upon a horse that is, indeed, fit to carry a 

 lady ; and many others, numbering in all one hundred 

 and twenty at the very least. The ground, after the 

 recent rains, rode very heavy, but as I was mounted 

 on one of Mr. Dupont's weight carriers, Hark- 

 away, a clever and temperate animal, I rose superior 

 to such matters as a little more or less of mud and 

 dirt. 



After drawing several pieces of rape, and sundry 

 patches of furze, we at length found a fox, which 

 gave us a smart gallop over the Downs at a rattling 

 pace for about half-an-hour, when he ran into an 

 enclosure, where there was a piece of exceedingly 

 thick gorse, and he was speedily run into and broken 

 up. Miss Bonner, on Polo, a smart-looking little 

 cob, receiving the head, and Mr. Jay the brush ; the 

 young lady deserving the compliment, being a bold 

 and graceful rider, having a nice seat and light 

 hands. 



After this we drew for a while, and at last I 

 viewed a fine old fox going away a clinker, running 

 up to Edburton National Schools, where he was 

 headed, probably by the youthful scholars attending 

 that educational establishment, and taking a line 



