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another, after riding about all day, and the chances are you 

 can't catch him ! ' 



* I suppose,' said Mr. Morton angrily, * the habits of one 

 country are incomprehensible to the people of another. 

 When I see Americans loafing about in the bar-room of an 

 hotel, I am lost in amazement.' 



' There is not a man you see who couldn't give a reason 

 for his being there. He has an object in view — though 

 perhaps no better than to rob his neighbour. But here 

 there seems to be no possible motive.' 



FROM IMPINGTON GORSE 



The fox ran straight from the covert through his well- 

 known haunts to Impington Park, and as the hounds were 

 astray there for two or three minutes there was a general 

 idea that he too had got up into a tree — which would have 

 amused the Senator very much had the Senator been there. 

 But neither had the country nor the pace been adapted to 

 wheels, and the Senator and the Paragon were now returning 

 along the road towards Bragton. The fox had tried his old 

 earths at Impington High Wood, and had then skulked back 

 along the outside of the covert. Had not one of the whips 

 seen him he would have been troubled no further on that 

 day — a fact which, if it could have been explained to the 

 Senator in all its bearings, would greatly have added to his 

 delight. But Dick viewed him ; and with many holloas 

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