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top about 10 feet high. Hunt was completely beat, when one, 

 Barlow, who was supposed to be as blind as the proverbial bat, said, 

 " I see the hare," and there she was, crouching in the ivy on top of 

 the wall. How she got there, or how Barlow,^ of all the field, should 

 have spotted her, beat us. 



We once had a good hunt with a fox, I think, at Mr. Ivatts of 

 Eampton ; but we did not kill, and the details I have forgotten. 



There was one very curious trait connected with Hunt which I 





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nearly forgot, viz. when running his back shirt-tail used to gradually 

 work out, first a corner and then the whole. As he wore white 

 shirts of great length one used to see this white flag streaming away 

 behind. He never took any notice of it, and the cry of, " Mother, 

 your shirt's out," was usually met by, " D — n my shirt," followed 

 by a struggle with his disengaged hand to tuck it in, one side being 

 generally left out. I think he later invented an arrangement of 

 safety-pins to fasten front and back together " as we were so blamed 

 particular," but said it was not a satisfactory arrangement at certain 

 periods. 



The following story shows what an extraordinary person he was. 



1 Cf. page 86. 



