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night. He remounted after he had attended 

 to the hounds, and rode to Guisborough, 

 say 8 miles, where he looked in at a political 

 meeting which was being held ; he rode on 

 the same night to the Kennels at Warrenby, 

 8 miles more, and found the huntsman sitting 

 up disconsolate and refusing to go to bed 

 without his hounds. He started before 

 daybreak (3 a.m.), and, riding the same 

 horse, accompanied the huntsman, Will 

 Nicoll, to Ingleby (12 miles); hence he 

 helped to collect the lost hounds on the 

 moor and in Bilsdale ; and the following 

 afternoon I met him, still on the same horse, 

 now more like a gigantic greyhound than 

 anything else, escorting the hounds back to 

 Warrenby from Ingleby (16 miles); and 

 when this was accomplished, he rode home 



