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and Cranoe, and up hill to a spinney. Hay's liorse 

 could gallop well, so I got on to the other side, stood 

 still for a minute, and saw hounds come out, Royston 

 hunting it single-handed through the sheep ; and then 

 ]\Ionarch spoke on the other side of the hedge, the rest 

 came bundling on, andaway we went, "Cherry" Angel here 

 in company. Crossed a lane near Grlooston village, and 

 carried on well through several fields full of sheep. 

 " Hurrah for the Duke of Beaufort ! " said I — Ferry- 

 man,"^ guiding the scent, leading to Glooston Wood. "I 

 always told you so," says Clerk (Tailby had been in it the 

 day before). Through the wood like bells, and away on 

 the other side towards Skeffington. Allan Young hol- 

 loaed them away. On coming out of the wood I had a 

 shoe off, and Walter de Winton changed horses with 

 me. There is a nasty deep bottom at the end of the 

 field, where Custance got his horse fast ; my horse, or 

 rather de Winton's, refused it, and Edgill scrambled in. 

 Just then I heard Dick whistle, and found him on the 

 other side on Rainbow. I j amped off, got over the rails, 

 and set sail all right again. Some men rabbiting had 

 turned the fox half a field to the left, and they ran clear 

 away from us again. John Chaplin and another were 

 before me, but kept too far to the left. I got along the 

 road to Godeby with Colonel Mayon, and caught them 

 at the corner of the road, and then went on with them 

 alone to Keythorpe Wood. Here they checked a 

 moment in the wood, or at least did not speak. I got 

 on to the middle ride, and saw Singer, Streamer, and 

 Ferryman cross, but not on the line ; however, they hit 

 it off again, and went away towards Eamshead. I got 

 the rest after them, and had eleven couple on — Fanny 

 the last hound out. Dick and Tom both there. Three 



* Ferryman, by Duke of Beaufort's Finder. 



