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Langton and Great Bowden ; hounds still carried on 

 steadily. I just saw Langton Caudle, which we 

 passed on our left, and thought it would be the end 

 of the journey, and that I could just hug up to it. 

 Crossed the Thorpe Langton and Welham road, 

 got through the brook at a ford. Going up a hill, 

 "Usurper" dropped into a trot, and Mr. Hay lent 

 me his horse, a brown thoroughbred. The first 

 gate I came to half closed and touched his side ; he 

 plunged and pitched me clean over his head. We 

 here came to a ploughed field and a wheat-field. 

 The field remained on the grass on the top of the 

 hill. I went with the hounds, and had to jump a 

 ditch up hill out of the plough. The horse did not 

 land his hind-legs, and was not strong enough to get 

 up, so I jumped off. At the bottom of the hill a 

 " Pat " holloaed us on : " Just gone when I holloaed ". 

 Off again over the grass, turned to the left, passed a 

 brick kiln, crossed the road between Staunton Wyville 

 and Cranoe, and up hill to a spinney. Hay's horse 

 could gallop well, so I got on to the other side, stood 

 still for a minute, and saw hounds come out, " Roy- 

 ston " hunting it single-handed through the sheep ; 

 and then " Monarch" spoke on the other side of the 

 hedge. The rest came bundling on, and away we went, 

 " Cherry " Angel l here in company. Crossed a lane 

 near Glooston village, and carried on well through 

 several fields full of sheep. " Hurrah for the Duke 

 of Beaufort ! " said I " Ferryman," 2 guiding the 



1 Mr. Angel of Lubbenham. " Cherry," contraction of Cherubim, 

 his cognomen at Eton. 



2 " Ferryman," by Duke of Beaufort's "Finder". 



