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teeth ; " we arn't going to be sneezed at by these 

 Imrry-scurry riders from t'other hunts, who com'd 

 down on purpose to show us the trick. I rayther 

 thinks they'll go home wiser than they set out ; and, 

 although they do say all the wise men come from 

 the east, Fve a notion we of the west can show 'em 

 a trick or two worth knowing/^ 



Some six miles back from the point where the first 

 fox had been brought to hand in a style so satisfac- 

 tory as to elicit general applause from all who could 

 reach the spot, lay a small plantation, overhanging 

 a beautiful grass vale, and there Headman fancied 

 the second fox might have waited awhile, as he had 

 not been followed by hounds a hundred yards from 

 the gorse; and his conjectures proved correct; for no 

 sooner had the pack been thrown into it than the 

 fox bundled out of it, not quite in view, however, and 

 down the hill he went, without hesitation; and the 

 pack, catching sight of him as he descended, set to 

 running again a terrific pace. Taking it as granted 

 that they were now committed to a clipper in the 

 low-lands, the majority of the field rattled down after 

 them, bent on mischief. 



" They won't run away from us here, master 

 Jem," cried Tom Harkaway, belonging to the B. C. 

 Hunt, " the fences will stop them ; they can't creep 

 through them as fast as we can jump over them." 



" Our hounds never think of creeping through 

 hedges like yours, Mr. Harkaway — they be bred too 

 high for that sort of low muddling work ; so come 

 along, and Pll soon pump you out, my hearty," he 

 muttered, as he went over the first wide double with 



