36 I'ACt AGAINST HCTION. 



commenced at the wild rider who caused tlie 

 misliap, and Avas not quite shot off even when the 

 fall, if it could be called a fall, took place. A very 

 useful friend of mine, a coal and timber merchantj 

 saw this — a Mr. Norton, who lived at Uxbridge, 

 but who, I regret to say, is dead ; and I am 

 not certain but that ni}' friend Mr. Norman, of 

 Uxbridge, who may be alive now, did not see 

 the same thing. There was then no getting out 

 the right side ; so with Mr. Norton's help, and I 

 think a labourer or two Avith spades, we trenched 

 one side of the haha the way I wished to go, 

 and led my horse out of his difficulty. 



It only mattered for a time ; the hounds needed 

 no assistance from the huntsman, and the S2)lendid 

 hunter arched his neck, and knew very well how to 

 overtake the field and o-et to the head a^rain. After 

 one of the hardest and best runs, at the close of 

 it Jack was dead lame. A horse-dealer, named 

 Robbinson, there and then, lame as he icaSj 

 offered me three hundred and fifty guineas for him 

 on the spot, which I at once refused. 



There are many fine riders, who, if they would, 

 could back me uji in tales of the intelligence of 

 their hunters — such as Lord AYilton, for no better 



