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duce of the old cart-mare by some country Highflyer, 

 and may be sure, especially if in addition to all this he 

 is a runaway, that no one remembers anything about 

 his grandsire. 



In that tremendous run of thirty miles, to which I 

 have before alluded, in which my huntsman killed one 

 very valuable mare, and completely tired two other 

 horses, my first whipper-in was carried well to the 

 end, in a good place, by a little entire thorough-bred 

 chestnut horse, of extraordinary power, measuring barely 

 •fifteen hands. The Hon. E. Grimston and Mr. Daniel], 

 longo intervallo, did wonders, and kept company with 

 him to the finish ; but this little horse had gone through 

 a morning's work before the finding of an afternoon fox, 

 and I will venture to say that nothing but blood could 

 have gone throughout the whole of such a day. Enough, 

 however, of the breeding of our hunters, let us remem- 

 ber, only, that upon their abilitij to go depends all our 

 chance of seeing anything of the sort of run we are all 

 anxious to see, and that to be prepared for any enjoy- 

 ment of the burst which occurs some fine morning, 

 when least expected, from some covert, the very last 

 " one would have thought of" to hold such a fox, our 

 horses must he in condition. 



For the most useful hints upon this most important 

 point, I would refer every one to Nimrod's letters, which 

 I consider as gospel on the subject : though it is long 

 since I read them, on their first coming" out, I remember 

 enough of them to know that they are to be recom- 



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