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earths, unluckily left open to receive him. We 

 then had a long walk over a good deal 

 of country, drawing Poyntington Withybed, 

 Milborne Slates, and Ridge all blank. Some 

 of the field went home, as the day was drawing 

 in, but those who persevered were rewarded 

 by a loud "view holloa" from Tom, who 

 viewed a brace away from the little cover of 

 Coonibe Hill. Away they went straight as a 

 line to Crackmore, hanging there a few 

 minutes, then out over Sherborne Park to 

 Goathill, sharply through it, and into and 

 through the length of Hanover, across the 

 Queen's highway into Crendles, along the 

 hanging of East Hill and Everlanes. Here 

 he made a sharp turn down to the flat again, 

 leaving the railway on his right, and having 

 run merrily for some five or six fields hounds 

 suddenly threw up at the edge of a stream, 

 and whether Reynard "paddled his own canoe" 

 out of our reach, or what happened, nobody 

 knows, but he certainly left us, hounds and all, 

 staring at nothing at the edge of the brook ; 

 but he did not come back. Orbell cast forward 



