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to run he starts cutting out the work, and ^-enerally gets down 

 at some fence no one else will look at ; but I have never seen 

 him down on the wrong" side, nor watched him but he was 

 sailing away directly, and very otten alone in his glory. His 

 name occurs frequently in these pages, and space alone prevents 

 my enlarging upon his merits as one of the quickest men to 



Miss Ethel Peel on "Blanche" 



hounds I have ever seen. Fox hunting Is hereditary in the 

 Peel family. Mr. Peel's father, who was a Cabinet Minister, 

 declared that there was no joy on earth to compare with riding 

 a good horse in a good country alongside hounds running with 

 a breast-high scent. 



There was not a pin to choose between Mrs. Butler and her 



