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his horse and the deer all rolling in a heap 

 together. After a run of three hours and twenty 

 minutes the deer was secured and taken into a 

 shed, but I regret to have to add, he only lived 

 a very short time, after his brilHant performance. 

 Of the other two actors, neither of them were 

 any the worse. Mr. Offin walked his gallant 

 horse all the way from Herongate to Down 

 Hall, Rayleigh. History does not state what 

 became of the hounds or the rest of the Field, 

 but we may be pretty sure there were many 

 aching hearts that night. One man must have 

 been thoroughly satisfied with himself and his 

 horse. The latter, he said, he bought of Lord 

 Petre, and he was such an excellent performer, 

 he did not object to jumping single hay-cocks. 

 In any case, he did the work of three that day, 

 and no doubt he rests in peace — where all good 

 horses go. 



Measured on the map this run covered 

 twenty-three miles, and the way they went it 

 must have been fully thirty-three miles. 



I have to thank Mr. Tom Ofhn for the 

 accounts of the following runs. They had a 

 good spin (date not known), but supposed to be 

 somewhere about 1852 or 1853, when a straight 

 necked fox was found in Sir Thomas Lennard's 

 coverts at Belhouse, and away they went 

 straight across to Puddledock (many good 

 runs I have had from the covert before 

 that abomination in the shape of wire was 

 thought of, and the land in possession of 

 a people who neither care for nor understand 



