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scored, for he went straight at it and got over all right, while most of the 

 others accepted Bailey's lead at the place he had chosen. Turning, still 

 left-handed, they went at a rattling pace over some big fields for Canfield 

 Mount. A momentary check shortly after favoured horses. Crossing a big 

 brook, the gentleman on the chesnut='= and a few others had it to themselves 

 for the next four fields, while the remainder made play down a hard road 

 to the left, which the hounds shortly crossed and went slipping along to 

 Canfield Thrift. 



There was no time for lagging about, for by the time we reached the far 

 end hounds were already out, with Bailey and the Master and Mrs. Bennett 

 in close attendance. We admired Mrs. Bennett's clever cob and envied 

 her nerve as she jumped one blind place after another, just as they came ; 





Canfield Thrift 



while Mr. Chapman, of Roydon Lee, was giving a four-year-old, a red roan, 

 a lesson which he would never forget, for his head was never turned, and 

 he sailed along as straight as a bird. The pace quickened again as they 

 swept down the hill, and the view halloa rang out at an open earth near 

 Olives. 



Mr. Crosse was not the only one who had twenty miles to ride home 

 in a pouring rain after this good run of sixty-five minutes. 



A December afternoon with Mr. Vigne's harriers, I cull from the diary, 

 near the end of the month too, Saturday the 29th. All the morning had 

 they been ringing the changes in the Forest with two or three hares without 

 killing. When at about 2-30 the Mate and his brother joined us, and after 

 old and young Hurrell, Mr. Vigne, Baby Philby, and Young Philby (about 



Mr. Ritchie. 



