I go 



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thrusters on the right rode for this muddy outlet. The first ten or fifteen 

 lost little ; but if you allowed ten yards for lost ground (never to be reco- 

 vered for the next six miles), for each man that came after them, you would 

 not have been far out in your calculation. I know one man,- who was 

 riding a blood mare that can stay, gallop, and jump anything. I can vouch 

 for his heart being in the right place ; but with bachelor politeness he got 



Mrs. Handfield Jones 



through that gap about fiftieth, and never got to hounds again before 

 Epping Forest was reached. Possibly this was only another indication of 

 the great pace hounds were going all the time. 



Mrs. Mandfield Jones, n(fc Maud Dawson, second daughter 

 of George Hogarth Dawson, was, before she married, as fond 



G Sewell. 



