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remembered run. Meanwhile the huntsman first, and 

 the rest of the field by degrees and at long intervals, 

 come straggling up from remote bridges and roads. 

 It has not been a run favourable to the " point rider," 

 who sometimes arrives at the " point " before the 

 fox himself, for it has been quite straight, measuring 

 on the map six miles from point to point, and the 

 time, from the "holloa away" to the kill, exactly 

 thirty minutes. 



And here, leaving our two friends to receive the 

 congratulations (not all of them quite sincere) of an 

 admiring and envious field, and to apologise to the 

 huntsman for the hurried obsequies of the fox, whereby 

 his brush and head the latter still contended foi 

 by some of the more insatiable hounds, and a half- 

 gnawed pad or two are by this time the only 

 evidence of his past existence, I will leave the record 

 of deeds of high renown, and, having shown the 

 extreme of delight attainable by the first-class men 

 or senior wranglers of fox-hunting, proceed to de- 

 monstrate how happiness likewise attends those 



