A SPLENDID GALLOP. 



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embrace, with nothing worse than a bruise or two, we 

 got away again, thus steahng a march upon the more 

 patient equestrians, who continued to crawl through the 

 maze. The old black had his reward, for thanks 1:o his 

 courage and pace, we soon regained the place temporarily 

 lost, and overhauled the pack as we left Frisby to the left, 

 and (trusting to my recollection of forty years ago), bore to 

 the right between Skeffington and Rolleston Spinnies, 

 leaving Tugby and Keythorpe wide on the left, through 

 Rolleston Wood, the fox being killed in the open just before 

 reaching Ilston Village. The longest point would not exceed 

 five miles, but as we almost described a horse-shoe, I think 

 we covered about ten miles, and with this one check it was 

 a splendid gallop from start to finish. 



