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Without hurry, just restraining his impatience (he 

 has the eagerness of youth), yet leaving him much 

 to himself, he puts his horse at it in a steady hand 

 canter, dropping his hand at the instant the sensible 

 beast takes off to an inch in the right place, and 

 he is safe over without even a rap. 



A glorious sea of grass is now before him. 



Quocunque adspicias, nihil est nisi gramen et aer ! 



A smooth and gradual slope with comparatively 

 small fences leads down to the conventional line of 

 willows which foreshadows the inevitable brook, 

 without which neither in fact nor story can a good 

 run with hounds occur. Now it is that our hero 

 shows himself a consummate master of his art. 

 The ploughed and ridge-and-furrow fields, above 

 alluded to, followed by the extra exertion of the 

 timber jump at the top of the hill, have rather 

 taken the "puff" out of his gallant young horse, 

 and besides, from the same causes the hounds by 

 this time have got rather the better of him. In 



