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asked each other how it was going to end, and 

 for once forgot to ride jealous. Jumping any- 

 thing big had long been eschewed as only tending 

 to certain disaster and defeat, when a welcome 

 holloa proclaimed that the fox Avas only just in 

 front of them, and in a few more minutes they 

 bowded him over in Willy Husband's orchard, 

 near Hutton Rudby. The hounds had been 

 running four hours and a half, and were never 

 cast. The only breathing time for horses was 

 whilst they were in Seamer Whin, where the first 

 change of foxes took place. Two horses Avere 

 killed in the run, and several were some time 

 before they recovered from its effects. The scene 

 in Willy Husband's orchard will never be for- 

 gotten by those who witnessed it. A few days 

 before some young fellows had been amusing 

 themselves by larking over Willy's farm, and in 

 the course of their lark had ridden over one or two 

 wheat fields. So, before the master had got the 

 fox from the hounds Willy appeared on the 

 scene, exceedingly irate, and with a choice 

 vocabulary of expletives ready to launch at the 

 unfortunate foxhunters who were guiltless of 

 damage. Mr. Andrew's cheery " Is that you, 

 Willy, have you any gin ? " instantly assuaged his 

 wrath, and he replied, "Ay, Thomas, that hev ah, 

 an' nivver paid king or queen a shilling ;" and 

 straightway he produced some of what he called 

 **'t reet sooart." There was a merry party at Mr. 



