AND A GREAT GALLOP 



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gate and cart-gate (four necessary outlets in succession) to 

 cut hounds tl^'ing the dale leftward. 1 now follow the 

 fray by means of tableaux as they recur to mind, mark- 

 ing occasion, hindrance, and progress. No. 1. Lord 

 Spencer, Messrs. Goodman, Newbold, and Adamthwaite, 

 with John Isaacs, tearing down the slope tor Drayton 

 Spinnies, and landing almost abreast over the strong 



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A shepherd waving his hat 



fenced drop into a bridle-road. (It seems to me that 

 half the fences of the three counties have now the power 

 of jogging my memory as I pass with reminiscence of 

 some merry incident or some trifling contretemps. Was 

 there not one of the field to-day, who, some few years 

 ago, made this, his first fence in Northamptonshire, his 

 own by virtue of carrying a rood of it into the next 

 pasture and there rolling upon it till he and his horse 



