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have partaken of his hospitahty as they passed Hatfield Grange 

 on their way home after a long day in the Roothings. 



Mrs. Weston Crocker, on "True-Blue," shares in her 

 husband's popularity, and shares his enthusiasm for the chase. 

 She possesses a capital nerve, of which she once gave a 



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Striking proof in the season of 1896-97. Through her horse 

 falling back upon her in a ditch half full of water, she had 

 a very narrow escape from being suffocated, but although in 

 imminent peril not a word of alarm escaped her, and those who 

 assisted at the rescue could not helj) remarking upon the calm, 

 cool courage she had shown. 



The philosophic mind derives sonie satisfaction, however small, even 

 in the most adverse and strange surroundings, and that no one may aspire 

 to become a huntsman who does not possess it is a truism, even if Beckford' 



