A SCURRY FROM HRAUNSTON GORSE 



329 



latter hounds bent as they entered the ground chosen a few 

 seasons ago for the House of Commons Point-to-Point. A 

 strong high bulllinch and a stout half-hidden ox-rail draped 

 the field above the brook ; and ere men had galloped half 

 across the pasture hounds were shaking their sides on the 

 further bank. The little chestnut was asked to do it in 

 two, and did half of it : " Never swallowed so much water 

 in my life," said he : while the huntsman went for it in one, 

 and recovering himself in three, picked himself up with a 



T»-r^A5:^w^'''^i^-*g=.i^-^<-'*'-^^ -'^?SS^ 



A hot hat flying in the breeze 



huic-huic-huic (celerrimo). Happiest man in England now ; 

 and the best of them all, on our side, to ride to his own 

 hounds. Indifferent to whom may care to take first cut, 

 he turns as hounds go, is ever in the very front of the chase, 

 '' let the young and the jealous try hard for his place." 

 (And but yesterday, they tell me, Tom Firr was in similar 

 fashion making example of the Quornites from Barkby 

 Holt to the Coplow ! ) A poise on the upland above the 

 stream, a steadier at a picked place, and Captain Baird and 

 a dozen others flew the half-empty chasm fifty yards on the 

 right. The upland was firm and the turf was all spring, as 



