A HOME SEQUEL 



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sonally I was far too busy at the moment to observe who 

 they were. 



Carr had hunted his fox from Cook's Gorse round the 

 left of Upper Hihnorton, till he reached a complication 

 of railway, canal, and brook beneath Lower Hilmorton. 

 Crammed into a low water meadow, there was apparently 



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The occupants of llie carriages enjoyed the funny spectacle 



no way for him and the field to extricate themselves, 

 except by jumping the brimming stream. Hiiic ilia' 

 lach)ym(T—i\\o\\g\\ the gallery (the occupants of a string of 

 carriages drawn up not a hundred yards from the scene 

 of action) received the exhibition with anything but a 

 decent show of commiseration. On the contrary, they 

 wore a broad grin for the whole rest of the day, it seemed 

 to me, or, at least, whatever may answer for a broad grin 



