A SPLITTER FROM ROUGH TALLEYS 



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soon either for hounds were away to Weald Coppice, and the van, including 

 Grossman we e over the road, and the van had secured the opening of the 

 railway -atls though it cost ^Ir. Grossman his smallest coin, as. 



Is we cTe'a ed Rough Talleys, craners were riding do^^-n the first fence 

 scann'nl it and after bSng nearly knocked over by one of them, '; Berserker 

 Smped'^i sideways most^ easily. On over the stubble at racing pace we 



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laggards rode to catch the hounds, a gate into the North W eald road, a gate 

 outtbut the pace too good for either the leaders thought, the fence mo the 

 road bringing ^^Ir. Gerald Buxton (who was riding a horse of Mr iUhng s) 

 down a rare crumpler and flattening his sandwich case out of all shape. 



Hounds were two fields ahead, but swinging to the left for \\ eald Cop- 

 pice, and we were abreast of them before they entered it ; a cry ot music, a 

 momentary linger beyond Mr. Bosley's, and they were away again at a 

 splitting pace for Rundells. Mrs. F. Ball was sending her bay along ov^er 

 the bea^as as we converged together for the fence at the bottom (those who 



