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happiness into his mental and physical organisation 

 as human nature is capable of containing at one time. 

 Such a man, so launched on his career, is difficult to 

 catch, impossible to lead, and not very safe to follow ; 

 but I will try to do the latter for a page or two on 



A BURNING SCENT. 



paper. He is riding on the left or right of the 

 hounds (say the left for present purposes), about 

 parallel with their centre, or a little in rear of them, 

 if they run evenly and do not tail, and about fifty 

 yards wide of them. The fields are chiefly grass, 

 and of good size. The hounds are " racing," heads 



