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was still stiff from the previous day's 

 exertions. 



Monday, Qth January 1882. Hounds 

 met at Ayton, where there was breakfast 

 at the Buck. This was the most extra- 

 ordinary day I ever had. I rode Queen 

 Mab in the morning till she got an over- 

 reach, when I changed on to Faraway, 

 on which horse I finished the first, and was 

 there when Bob Brunton took the fox from 

 the hounds in Hell Gill. I state this to 

 correct the press accounts, which describe 

 my getting my second horse in the great 

 run not to save my own credit, but to 

 preserve the record of my horse's marvellous 

 performance. The first was a ringing run, 

 fairly fast, on the hills between Roseberry 



Topping and Guisborough Banks, and for 



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