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fox over a boggy moor. " Ah nivver gets bog- 

 ged," sa.ys Jack, " if you giv em their heeacls an' 

 ram t' spurs in, an' they'll alias gan tbroo t' bogs; 

 it's pulling at 'em 'at maks 'em stick fast." Jack's 

 preaching, in this respect at any rate, is followed 

 by his practice ; and it is a sight to see him 

 splashing through treacherous boggy ground, 

 which most men would either avoid or stick fast 

 in. It is his delight to see a man bogged, and 

 "Don't follow Jack, if we run over the moor, he's 

 sure to bog you if you do," was the advice Mr. 

 Parrington gave us when we visited the Sinning- 

 ton a few years ago. 



Jack has had some strange experiences, and 

 innumerable are the anecdotes which are told of 

 his strange adventures by 'flood' and 'field,' for 

 Jack is a famous fisherman as well as a huntsman, 

 and always accompanies Mr. Digby Cayley on 

 his fishing excursions into Scotland, where they 

 have many a good day's sport. 



But it is with Jack's adventures by land and 

 not on the water that we have to deal. On one 

 occasion he was in want of a hunter and went 

 over to Northallerton Fair with a view to pur- 

 chase. A shrewd judge and a keen bargainer, 

 as he had need to be when the small amount of 

 money he gets for finding himself with horses and 

 hunting the hounds is taken into consideration, 

 he soon bouo^ht a horse which he thoug^ht was 

 like suiting him, a big upstanding chesnut from 



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