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was still stiff from the previous day's 

 exertions. 



Monday, 9th January 1882. — Hounds 

 met at Ayton, where there was breakfast 

 at the Buck. This was the most extra- 

 ordinary day I ever had. I rode Queen 

 Mab in the mornino- till she eot an over- 

 reach, when I changed on to Faraway, 

 on which horse I finished the first, and was 

 there when Bob Brunton took the fox from 

 the hounds in Hell Gill. I state this to 

 correct the press accounts, which describe 

 my getting my second horse in the great 

 run — not to save my own credit, but to 

 preserve the record of my horse's marvellous 

 performance. The first was a ringing run, 

 fairly fast, on the hills between Roseberry 



Topping and Guisborough Banks, and for 

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