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hollow, and he came rioht on the top of me, and there we both 

 lay, the horse with his leo's up in the air, quite unable to move, 

 and I in the same predicament, doubled up underneath him, 

 and neither al)le to see nor hear ; and I r(x:all how devoutly I 

 hoped that someone had seen the spill, for unaided I could 

 never have got out. My suspense did not last long, and when 

 rescued, beyond being rather severely squeez(xl, I was none the 

 worse for my adventure." 



Mr. Green said "you must come over to dinner if you want 

 any more stories about these horses." Unfortunately, oppor- 

 tunity has not waited upon inclination, and the tales have yet 

 to be told. 



Grafton " 



The cubbing season of 1884- 1885 opened in very dry weather at Down 

 Hall, on September 8th at 5 a.m., but most of us reserved our energies for 

 Netteswell Hill, on the card two days later at 5.30 a.m. At that time the 

 Mate was a rare hand at cooking an early breakfast, and, better still, at 

 demolishing it afterwards, and could sleep like a top on a sofa ; nevertheless 

 3.30 a.m. saw the coffee and eggs disappearing like magic, and 4.30 a.m. two 

 men hacking on to the meet and returning a few hours later with MacEvans 

 and others after seeing three cubs handsomely killed. Found plenty of cubs 

 in Colonel Lockwood's coverts a week later and killed a couple; the ground, 

 however, was getting so hard that it was given out that without rain hounds 

 would not go out again, notwithstanding which they did on Wednesday, 

 September 20th, at Harlow Common, but had no sport —the ground like a 

 brick— and again under the same atmospheric conditions, met at Passing- 



