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check. Among those who went well with the leading 

 division throughout were Mr. Basset, the Duchess 

 of Hamilton, Mrs. T. Fitzwilliam [since dead*], Miss 

 Kinglake, Miss Hurst [riding a mare of Snaffle's*], 

 Captain Curzon, the Hon. C. Bampfylde, Mr. Karslake, 

 Q.C. [since dead*], Mr. J. Budd [since dead*], Mr. 

 A. Hamilton [" Cinqfoil," of The Field, who wrote 



a capital account of the run*], [" Snaffle"*], 



Messrs. Coleridge, Rocke (two), Passmore, and Slader." 

 So ended the great moorland gallop. Before we 

 moved away homewards, some score more horsemen 

 had turned up, making the total up to thirty-five 

 according to "Cinqfoil," or thirty-three according 

 to " Dunkery " in Land and Water, who pithily 

 concludes, " All else were absolutely out of it." 



A GALLOP OVER THE GRASS. 



This run occurred after the end of the legitimate 

 stag-hunting season, the Master having granted the 

 longed-for favour of ** a few by-days." The date was 

 October i6th, Tuesday, and consequently a fortnight 

 all but a day after the big run I described last. 



Properly speaking I ought to have begun with 

 a prologue, and told the story of the run of September 

 the 24th. Suffice it to say that on that day, the 

 meet being at Haddon, hounds were laid on at 4 p.m. 

 on to the line of a one-horned stag, who beat them 

 finally in thick mist and gathering darkness at a 

 place called Steert. 



On the day of which I speak, then, the meet 



* My notes and remarks. SNAFFLE. 



