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disappointment, as this was his show in the 

 absence of Hassan, incapacitated. Biding home, 

 my pony gave me a fall in an ant-bear hole, as 

 if I wasn't wet enough before ! Our spirits, as 

 well as our bodies, were now considerably damped, 

 and Eustace on our return took to his dripping 

 couch rather knocked up, and was unable to 

 hunt next day. I was, luckily, still perfectly 

 fit, and the next day was to be the red-letter 

 day of my life. 



I will give it a chapter to itself, a chapter 

 written two or three years back for the Badminton 

 Magazine. 



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