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I returned to England soon after this, without 

 going to see the turn-out at St. Omer's, and though 

 I seldom object to raise a laugh at my own expense, 

 I must candidly allow I never mentioned my hunt- 

 ing expedition with the baron, when two days 

 after landing I met the King's Hounds, at Stoke ; 

 nor was I more communicative among the yellow 

 capes at Gerard's Cross when I met them. Poor 

 Tom ! thine and many a gallant heart of that hunt 

 has ceased to beat since then. "Sic transit" fyc., fyc. 



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