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follow me, as someone had told her there was a 

 young lady out who was going to try to cut her 

 down. I said : 



" Well, your Grace, I am not on a very good one 

 now. but I have one coming out this afternoon that 

 you can follow. We are sure to go to Pryor's 

 Coppice, and that is a better country." 



She directly asked if I meant the old ' Doctor,' as 

 she had followed him several times before, and 

 naturally she was delighted when I told her that was 

 the case. 



Presently I saw my man, and mounted the old 

 horse. We went to Pryor's Coppice, and found a 

 fox directly, running towards the village of Braun- 

 ston. We had not gone above half a mile from the 

 covert before the hounds threw up their heads ; the 

 fact of the matter was, w^e were too close to them, 

 and had driven them over the line. When Bill 

 Neil came up he saw what had happened, cast 

 them to the left, and they hit it off again. We were 

 standing close to a small bottom or creeping fence. 

 There were only two or three places where you 

 could get over. Mr. Henry Leatham jumped it 

 first, and his horse fell on landing. It was certainly 

 a bit of a drop, but it was not more than six feet 

 wide, and there looked nothing to throw a horse 



