REALLY GOOD COINC. ! ! ! 



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bringing, as they did, small fields and very often rattling runs ? Fortunately 

 for the prudent and the timid, given a moderate knowledge of the country, 

 a certain intuition of the run of a fox, most, if not all, the fun of the fair 

 could be seen on the occasion in question from the hard high road without 

 going out of a walk or a trot, certainly without jumping a fence. 



Lest, however, any one should remark, " Why not always stick to the 

 road and leave the fences alone ? " without in any way wishing to decry 

 road riding, which has its advantages, I must honestly confess that even 

 with the ulterior object in view of conditioning a fat horse, one day of it 



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goes a long way, and h'iU last a healthy Bviton fov a year. Commencing with 

 Curtis Mill Green, the bottom end of which was in capital skating con- 

 dition, a fox very soon broke away in the Havering direction, and then 

 swung round beyond the iron railings across Albyns Park, nearly up to the 

 Osiers, and so back to the Green, where I was waiting for them, perhaps 

 ten minutes being passed in the process. There was quite enough jumping 

 to satisfy all who were not of the same kidney as Mr. W. H. P. Barnes, 

 who, having jumped about thirty fences, and only slipped badly once, voted 

 it really good going. 



Mr. Sims Horner (like the favourite hunter which carried 

 him for ten seasons) has hunted lon^'er than ttic majority. 



