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burnt faces. Our horses, too, showed their work, 

 and " our gayness and our gilt were all be- 

 smerched." Still every one was content with the 

 sport, and the incidents of the day afforded us 

 ample topics of conversation when we met at 



Mess, when N was heard consoling himself for 



his loss by observing, that Bidegley had died as 

 his master hoped to do " on the field in the mo- 

 ment of victory " 



