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niorht. He remounted after he had attended 



to the hounds, and rode to Guisborough, 



say 8 miles, where he looked in at a political 



meeting which was being held ; he rode on 



the same night to the Kennels at Warrenby, 



8 miles more, and found the huntsman sitting 



up disconsolate and refusing to go to bed 



without his hounds. He started before 



daybreak (3 a.m.), and, riding the same 



horse, accompanied the huntsman, Will 



Nicoll, to Ingleby (12 miles); hence he 



helped to collect the lost hounds on the 



moor and in Bilsdale; and the following 



afternoon I met him, still on the same horse, 



now more like a gigantic greyhound than 



anything else, escorting the hounds back to 



Warrenby from Ingleby (16 miles); and 



when this was accomplished, he rode home 

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