178 THE NOBLE SCIENCE. 



tliat they must have been on the other side of the field. 

 "Did you see the fox?" " No, I never zeed un." "No, 

 because he was barely within your sight." Three 

 ploughs, and their accompaniments, sufficiently account 

 for a check on the line ; but do not hold back at once ; 

 do not too readily take for granted that he has headed 

 or changed his point — cast forward in the line we were 

 running, beyond the ploughs — the hounds have made 

 good their own cast, to the right, and are flashing to 

 the left, striving in vain for a particle of the scent so 

 lately enjoyed — so suddenly dissipated. " Put 'em on, 

 Jem." Now quietly cast them o'er the brow. They 

 have it : — 



" Yoick forward again, and again, 

 Have at him, have at him, across the green plain." 



The check has scarcely occupied two minutes, afford- 

 ing a moment of relief to the horses, and of merry 

 interchange of " chaff," to the men. " What a proper 

 purl Lord Would-be has had, with Mr. Hasty almost 

 upon him ! Are they either of them hurt ? — Not at all. 

 Would-be was shook ; but he was up again, and soon in 

 his place, like a well bred one ; — Hasty has had another. 

 What, two ! with Nonpareil ? his best horse — aye — but 

 he pumped all the puff out of him, racing with Charley, 

 and riding at Burnam, in the first ten minutes. He will 

 be up directly on his second horse. Marvellous ; would 

 he were here now, to see this hit ; and here he is. 



