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follows : — The important letter to F'erry 

 Bridge was duly sent and acknowledged, and 

 the young couple returned to town, where 

 young Mrs. Duffield's friends, Mrs. Jardine 

 and her daughter, Mrs. Wild, Mrs. Hamilton 

 and her uncle, Mr. John Elwes, hastened 

 to call on her, bringing her affectionate mes- 

 sages from her mother. The father, Mr. John 

 Elwes, played the part of the stern parent 

 for a time, when all was forgiven, and the 

 bride's own scruples having been solaced by 

 another marriage (though the first was quite 

 legal) in " Mary-le-Bone church," "all lived 

 happily for ever after," as the story books 

 say. 



The wedding seems, however, to have ended 

 the hunting partnership, and Mr. Symonds 

 carried on alone until 1814, when he sold the 

 hounds to Mr. William Codrington. Some of 

 his horses went to Tattersall's : " Hopewell " by 

 Elkington fetched 150 guineas, " Applegarth " 

 was bought in. The hounds then left Hinton 

 where they had been for fifty years or more. 

 They had good sport in those days. The 

 following run was described to the writers by 

 Colonel Adam Blandy, who had the account 

 from his father, who took part in it. 



There was a quarry on the " Race Farm" 

 at Kingston Bagpuize, where a fox lay. The 



