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on their own account, confusing you with the two Hnes, the two 

 choruses with which the woods are now echoinsf. Let our first 

 friend, the good fox, break at short notice on the Toot Hill side, 

 or in the Blake Hall direction, when you have been pinning 

 your faith on his making for Gaynes Park or the Beachetts, and 

 you will be more than lucky if you see anything of the hounds 

 again before the run is over. 



But on Monday last everything worked propitiously, except 

 (and there is always an exception to everything, however good 

 it may be) to a few who, relying upon a day in the woods, had 



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ridden up late, or saved their horses for a better meet. Two 

 minutes, nay one, and the lady on the rich dark-coated thorough- 

 bred, who shot across the muddy lane that divides the Gaynes 

 Park preserves from the Ongar Park woods would have been 

 too late, for at that moment a distant " Halloa" came floating- 

 back on the breeze, far down the dark wood, as having ridden 

 with one or two more leisurely, and unsplashed, up the muddy 

 lane, we followed her down the broad middle ride of the 

 covert, to turn off with the late Master at the first chance on 

 the right, for hounds appeared to be making for the Toot 

 Hill side, although the force of the tide still set with a strong 



