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So he came on and they ran down to the 

 river below Wrestlingworth, over, and I got a 

 "holloa" on the hill above Hook's Mill. I 

 galloped to it, "hit it " out of the road, and 

 hunted, only hunted, him on and up to a shep- 

 herd on Ashwell Common, who blanched him, 

 and he dropped down in a big blackthorn bush. 

 They pushed him up and he came back 

 to the brook at the bottom of Ashwell 

 Common. I met him, and he went back over 

 the brook, with the hounds close to him. 

 Then all at once they "threw up." No one 

 had seen him, and I was completely puzzled. 

 We had been so close to him, and his sudden 

 disappearance in that manner was little short 



of a miracle. " D n ! " I said. " What's 



he done ? " 



I stood right on the brook bank, and I saw 

 a bitch called " Paragon " swimming about in 

 the brook as if she could wind something. She 

 swam up to what looked like a black knob in 

 the middle of the stream, and suddenly caught 

 fast hold of it. To my utter surprise, out he 



