THE SPORT OF RAJAHS 

 tumbling canter away across the 

 open. 



Now we cautiously gather up our 

 reins, slide our feet home, and pre- 

 pare to follow so soon as he has got 

 sufficiently far from the cover as not 

 to be tempted to double back on 

 finding himself hunted. It is a case 

 of Mr. Jorrocks counting twenty-one 

 very much drawn out, till Naylor at 

 length gives the word to go, and we 

 bound away together after the great 

 louping form now distant a good 

 quarter of a mile away over the 

 yellow grass. Our horses are mad 

 keen for the fray, and as one tears 

 through the fresh cool air all bodily 

 w r eight seems to leave one's extre- 

 mities and to be concentrated into a 

 great heartful of elation. One realises 

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