78 A FIX. 



While one of the horsemen, having dis- 

 mounted, was vainly trying to knock the 

 lock off with his hammer-handled whip, a 

 gentleman walked up to us, foaming at 

 the mouth with rage, and desired us, in 

 no measured language, immediately to 

 desist. Upon one of the company asking 

 him the way out, he told us to go out 

 the way we came in. This I, for one, 

 knew to be impossible, except at the 

 risk of the necks of both horse and rider. 

 Just at the moment the cry of the 

 hounds coming down the wind, broke 

 on our ears, and I pricked my horse 

 into a gallop. 



" Follow me, gentlemen,' 1 cried I " I can 

 find a way out." I led them down the 

 field, and, easily topping two quickset fences 

 in and out Mr. Cobbett's garden, we 

 soon rejoined our companions, leaving 

 the young gentleman, who was one of 

 the family, railing at the top of his 



