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ment of that run, short as the time was over which it 

 had then extended, I had seen a good many stumbles 

 among the field, I took no farther notice of it, and 

 continued my course. We had a very good thing, but 

 lost our fox. In the last cast I made for his recovery, 

 in a gateway I met Mr. Montague Ongley, looking as 

 pale as death, who asked, " If I knew where there 

 was a surgeon." I said, " No," and asked why ? He 

 replied, " Poor RadclifFe, I fear, is dead." His horse 

 had made no stumble farther than that caused by the 

 fall of his rider on his neck, and before he reached 

 the ground life, from all accounts, became extinct. 



A stray shot from my gun while I was at Harrold 

 struck a girl slightly in the face, who was gleaning 

 in another field ; and I once lodged some shot in the 

 hand and dress of a maid-servant at Cranford, who 

 came in at a gate in the court-yard at the moment I 

 shot a strange dog said to be mad, and the stones of 

 the court-yard raising the shot, a portion of the 

 charge struck her. The only serious accident I was 

 near effecting was at Dall, in the Highlands of Scotland, 

 while on a visit to Lord Grantley. AYe had been out 

 black-game shooting, and our return home lay through 

 the " Black Wood," in which were many roe-deer. 

 We had our rifles with us, and agreed to look for 

 deer on separate lines on our way home. Lord 

 Grantley was to take the shots to his right, and I was 

 to do the same by those on the left, so as to avoid 

 the risk of shooting each other. On coming near 

 home I saw a roebuck feeding to my left in a little 

 open glade, towards which I crept, but when within 

 a lono; shot of him somethino^ scared the buck and he 

 trotted oft\ It being the last chance of the day, 

 I discharged my rifle at him ; my horror may be 



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