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We then went to a cover near Bubbenhall, but 

 found no fox, and then, with the same luck, to 

 another east of Baggington. It was now nearly 

 four o'clock, growing dusk, and beginning to rain. 

 The hounds started for their kennels, and Dick 

 and I took a soft bridle-path skirting the charm- 

 ing road that leads, under such ivy-clad tree- 

 trunks and between such hedges as no other land 

 can show, through Stoneleigh Village and past 

 Stoneleigh Abbey to Leamington, and a well- 

 earned rest. 



My memorandum for that day closes : " Horse, 

 £ 2 12 s. Qd.; Fees, 2 s.; and well worth the 

 money." 



THE END. 



