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tinguished themselves on the occasion. How far 

 they carried a head without a check, what 

 occasioned that check when it did occur, 

 whether they hit it off again from their own 

 cast, or the subsequent one of the huntsman. 

 These questions he somewhat mischievously puts, 

 contemplating that not one man in ten of those 

 who were out could answer one of them. An ex- 

 pressive, and indeed impressive " Humph," tell 

 the one questioned as w^ell as one word can express 

 it, his comtempt of the party. He then, and 

 there is " a lurking devil in his sneer," adds — 1 

 suppose you had some fine riding over so choice 

 a country. 



" Oh yes," answers readily the person question- 

 ed, at once finding himself quite at home on the 

 subject proposed, *' Gilmour took the lead and 

 kept it for a time in spite of us all, Forrester 

 went as straight as a bird. Strathmore knocked 

 up his first horse, and nearly brought his second 

 to a stand still, Stubbs, sotto voce. Ginger Stubbs, 



