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spirits to have another try for him. Tom Telfer, 

 Frank Turnbull, Dick Davidson, George Heriot, Tom 

 Smith, poor Archie Rutherfurd, Robert Laing, George 

 Davidson, and others, never left so long as there was 

 light to draw ; and being all good horsemen and 

 anxious to go one better than the other, the pace 

 of these afternoon hunts was never slow, and some 

 prodigious deeds of valour were performed. 



Not so often did we kill our fox on these occasions, 

 but nearly always hounds ran hard and pressed their 

 fox, very often putting him to ground at too late an 

 hour to admit of bolting or digging. 



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