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quently did. Another time he gave me an 

 excellent run from Winchester Race-course. 

 He ran from there to Wonston, over the open 

 to Hill Farm, to Norwood, through Littleton, 

 and was taken at Winchester in a pond. As 

 soon as I rode up I called him, and he instantly 

 left the water with a bound, and went home 

 close to my stirrup, which astonished my sport- 

 ing friends. His fellow-mate, the hind Princess, 

 has also many times done the same thing. She 

 was left (in 1857) in the meadows with a cow 

 when she thought proper to roam away, and 

 w r as absent for six months, and then I heard 

 she was in Burntwood. I immediately let out 

 two couple and a half of my stag-hounds, and 

 with my father (who was a great sportsman), 

 my huntsman, and whip, after drawing for 

 some time, roused her ; she gave us first a ring- 

 round the wood, then broke away to Shrowner, 

 from there to the Grange Park, to Candover, 

 though Wield and College Wood, Chawton 

 Park, and Newton Common, and she was then 

 a quarter of an hour before the small pack. 

 She was seen by a man to go into Inny Down 

 when it was quite dusk. My hounds and 

 horses were quite tired, so I whipped off, and 

 left her for another day. The distance was 

 supposed to be thirty miles by the way she 



