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from the top-bar of a high hog-backed stile. It is 

 young Peyton, who has missed his second horse at 

 the check, who had followed in distress ; his nerve 

 and pluck had kept him going to within three 

 fields of the finish. The fall was nearly a cer- 

 tainty, as it was the third bit of timber he had 

 taken, and his horse was blown ; he was too good 

 to refuse them, and knew better than to do so." 



The pack is depicted as pulling him down in a 

 large grass field, every hound but one at his brush. 

 Jack Stevens with him in his hands would have 

 formed a subject worthy of Sir Edwin Landseer : a 

 blackthorn had opened his cheek, and besmeared 

 his upper garments with blood ; his head and cap 

 were besmeared by mud from a fall he has had in 

 a lane — he has ridden the horse throughout the 

 run, and has handled him so well he could have 

 gone two miles farther, had the run continued. 

 Osbaldeston's whohoop might have been heard 

 to Cottesmore had the wind set in that direction. 

 Every man present was in ecstasies. Lord Gardner, 

 Sir James Musgrave, and Colonel Lowther are de- 

 picted among those first up. Sir James Musgrave 

 remarks, ''What superb hounds are these." *'Just 

 ten miles as the crow flies, in one hour and ten 

 minutes, with but two trifling checks, over the 

 finest country in the world." ''You are right," 

 replies Colonel Lowther, " they are perfect. I wish 

 my father had seen them do their work to-day. 



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