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hounds were laid on with only five minutes' law, and the 

 scent laying well they went away, breast high, in a style 

 that "beggars all description" ; eight of the fleetest horses 

 only, out of at least a hundred, being enabled to lay any- 

 where by the side of them, till headed in absolute racing by 

 Johnson, the huntsman, assisted by Nottage and Gosden, 

 two of the yeoman prickers. 



' They brought him to view at Black Nest ; here he 

 repeatedly endeavoured to leap the high paling of Windsor 



Turning out the Deer foe the Eoyal Hunt on Windsor Forest 



Great Park, but without success, and the deer, hounds and 

 horsemen were all intermixed m one general scene of 

 confusion, when, by a most wonderful exertion, the deer 

 reached the park by the hawhaw through the shrubbery, 

 and plunging into the immense sheet of Virginia Water, 

 passed entirely through it. Here his Majesty entered 

 most energetically into the spirit of the chase, absolutely 

 assisted in getting the hounds forward, laying them on 



