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The Tees. 



Tommy, and his stable system is this : His horses are never 

 physicked, neither are they galloped in their exercise, having, 

 as he observed, ' plenty of galloping when they hunt.' 



" Death and its terrors kick the beam when put into the 

 scale against Matty Wilkinson's passion for the chase. 

 Although he cannot swim, no, not even a little, he has crossed 



The Three Brothers Wilkinson (Matty smoking). 

 that rapid and deep river, the Tees, at least forty times in his 

 life after the hounds, and has had some hair-breadth escapes. 

 Very soon after I was in his country, he was in the greatest 

 danger of being drowned. He plunged into this stream when 

 swelled with rain, and was unhorsed in the middle of it, 



