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ing the huntsman's cap, could spare time to come to his 

 rescue. So, you see, we had our Httle accidents and in- 

 cidents this day, and I hope I may be forgiven teUing them. 

 I return to the hounds. These, after leaving Prout's 

 Gorse, had circled the fields as far as The Islands — by 

 which I presume is meant the farm and its house, to be 



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Casualties to some extent alarming 



viewed from the covert upon the vale below. Then they 

 had returned, and set forth again to complete the figure 

 of eight by means of some twenty minutes of exceedingly 

 pretty going, in which they nearly touched the wood of 

 the morning — Ballintaggert, to wit. The ground was 

 hard, it is true — considerably harder than that of the 

 Harley neighbourhood, in the earlier part of the day. 

 But the banks were firm, and horses seemed to jump 



