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Charming ! oh, charming music they makes ! " 

 chuckled Jem ; " and coming my way too. He ain't 

 far afore 'em, however, I'll swear; but as four legs 

 is better than two, I'll just drop into the saddle 

 again." 



He had scarcely done so, when the fox, with mea- 

 sured gait and slow, emerged from the wood hedge, 

 running alongside it for a hundred yards or so, then 

 turned short back into it again. The hounds came 

 out almost in view, the old ones with their bristles 

 up now leading, and following his track with unde- 

 viating tenacity. 



"Tallj^-ho ! back," cried Jem. ^^Look out, master. 

 Ah ! they are a-physicking of him, and he has no 

 more chance with them old uns at head than I 

 should with a couple of lions. Hark ! master has 

 got a view on him. That screech of his is enough 

 to frighten any fox to death. Yes, by jingo ! they're 

 out at the bottom of the wood, running like blazes 

 up that hedgerow. Ah! what now? heads up and 

 starns too ? He's in the ditch — they are over it — old 

 Bounty jumps in upon him. Out he comes, and 

 exerts his last effort to regain the wood. But 

 Barrister's on the right side — runs into him ere 

 he has got half away across the field ; and when the 

 lawyer once gets hold of him 'tis whoo-hoop !" 



