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second the whole four feet of bank under 

 the horse, and in another moment he was 

 over the rails, just carrying the top - rail 

 away with his hind -legs. I got over with 

 a smash through the next rail. It is my 

 honest opinion that Mosquito jumped seven 

 feet in the air and covered some twenty-five 

 feet in this marvellous jump. 



Once during my Mastership I organised 

 a Drag that was to be on the pattern of a 

 long hunting - run, by making the course 

 some fourteen miles, instead of the usual 

 five or six. I arranged with old Leete that 

 we could run two Drags into one, leaving 

 half a mile twice without scent being laid, 

 to give us " checks " and time to breathe 

 our horses and get hounds together. But 

 the hounds were too cunning. They carried 



