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following in his wake, got over after a struggle, which sent the rest of us 

 right and left to pick an easier place ; how two fields further, the owner" of 

 the gallant " Knight of Kars" went "deeper than did e'er plummet sound" 

 into a Roding ditch and lost his place ; how by the time a certain stile 

 was reached, leapt, rapped and refused, and how some one else took a 

 wrong turn, and how scattered the field had become by the time a brook 

 was crossed, and Mr. Arkwright had viewed the fox over the road into 

 Harrington Park — are now matters of history. 



Thomas Usborne on "Basalt" 



lliomas Usborne, here depicted on "Basalt"' has never been 

 quite so keen about hunting, since he undertook to represent the 

 chief county town in Essex in the Conservative interest in 

 1892. But apart from politics, forty years in the hunting field 

 will take the edge off any but the keenest appetite, just as the 



Mr. H. E. Tones. 



