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the scruff of his neck ; " I wants his nose, and you 

 shall have the rest." 



" Will Headman/' said John Staveley, who was 

 switching his big brown horse along at a tremendous 

 pace, "this is a glorious finish to our down meet. 

 These jealous men from the other hunts can't go 

 home and laugh at us, that's one consolation. They 

 have had a pretty good dusting this morning, and 

 I'll engage have never seen hounds run so fast in 

 their lives." 



" All very well in its way, squire, and I'm glad 

 it has been in our power to show them that our 

 hounds can run as well as hunt. They have made 

 clean work of it this burst, and in course, by the time 

 we reaches 'em there won't be so much as a pad left. 

 No matter they can see what's been done, and I 

 hope Jem was in time to save the brush." 



Ten minutes after about fifty horsemen of the 

 three hundred got up to the spot where the fox had 

 been dispatched so summarily, and some twenty 

 minutes were allowed for other stragglers to come in, 

 during which the merits of the sport were discussed, 

 and voted unanimously the finest ever witnessed. 



"Now then, I suppose," said Mr. Palmer, the 

 master of the 13.0. Hunt, "home is the next order 

 of the day, since we have had galloping enough at 

 least, I can speak for myself." 



" Oh no, sir," replied Headman ; " our hounds 

 wants a good hour or two more, just to get their 

 heads down again after this wild work ; and master's 

 orders were to draw Hazel Grove if this here fox 

 was killed on the downs." 



