1874-75.] 



ALL fools' day, 1875. 



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to the remark), No. 3 got close under the tmiber, and shiver- 

 ing it with a crash that all the parish of Dalby must have 

 heard, opened a broad way for all who wished to come through. 

 By the bye, how inconveniently noisy and telltale are old rail- 

 ings that break (and horses invariably know when they will 

 not) ! They afford your friends an opportunity they never 

 miss of making derogatory remarks upon your most promising 

 horse — one possibly for which you expect to get a long price 

 at the end of the season. Moreover, they not improbably 

 turn round before you can return from your undignified jjosi- 

 tion between the beast's ears, or compose your features into 

 something like an expression of unconcern. Memo — give yom* 

 new horses plenty of work over the bar, before you brmg them 

 out in the field as timber-jumpers. 



At the brow of the hill immediately facing the rough front 

 of Burrough it was necessary to pull up, just as the warmth 

 of the sun and the vigorous exercise had fairly conquered the 

 north wind, and men began to afford testimony to the heat of 

 the chase. Then, dij^ping down to the steeplechase course, 

 ran up to the village of Burrough and round by the Punchbowl 

 to Gartree Hill. Here all trace of the fugitive was lost. 



