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went remarkably well, Wilson on his brown 

 horse navigated the brook beautifully, in short 

 skimmed it like a swallow. Will, the whip, 

 got in, took a cold bath, but on getting his 

 horse out went at a pace that shortly warmed 

 him and himself again. A stranger, whom no- 

 body knew, but splendidly mounted, rode one 

 horse the entire run, and it is but fair in his 

 case to quote from Harry Hieover, who in a 

 rini, he once described in verse, says of some 

 one, — 



" Very often was second — much oftener first." 



I must find out who the fellow w^as. Standish 

 went — " 



"Bless me," interrupts the squire, "you must 

 have had a hundred eyes to have seen what 

 the hounds were doing and to watch the exploits 

 of so many riders so closely as you appear 

 to have done." 



"Oh, I can tell you we had something better 



to do than watch the hounds." 

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