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sir, I never took the hounds off, so I got back pretty 

 quick, and we soon got away and over the hill, and 

 down through the edge of Bull's Copse — you do know 

 Bull's Copse, sir, on the hanging, and there is a big- 

 earth in it ; and I know'd the earth would be open, for 

 you see 'tis in the Craven country : and on we took him 

 to Ham Spray. Well, sir, here he were beat, and I 

 know'd if they were let alone they must kill him; so 

 I says, * Cowley, Cowley,^ you come out here.' So 

 Cowley and me just kept about a hundred yards or 

 so outside the wood, between that and Bull's Copse, for 

 I know'd he'd try to get back there and go to ground ; 

 when presently I just see his nose poke outside, and 

 I. put up my whip, as may be so (here suppose the 

 poker work again) and says, ' No, no, no ; you mustn't 

 come here.' And we kept him back, and the hounds 

 soon caught him, and we run that fox two hours and a 

 half, and then we went home ; and I'll tell you, sir, who 



were out that day, and that were Lord Rosslyn." 



"Do you remember, old friend, the day you killed 



your fox somewhere about Stockbridge, from the 



Weyhiil side o' the country ? " 



" Ay, and indeed I do, and I hunted the hounds 



that day. We met, you see, sir, at Chute Lodge, and 



Mr. Henry Fowle, if he were alive, poor man, would 



1 First Whip. 



