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nately the ditch was not deep. I was soon mounted again, 

 and I think followed Shirley in a good second. Messrs. 

 Talbot, Walter Colson, Sanders, and the whips soon followed 

 close up. Distance from London and North- Western Rail- 

 way, about eight miles; total, about fifteen miles. 



' Another good run, the date of which I cannot remember, 

 was from the back of Wiltshire's Farm, near Hayes. The 

 first stag having proved a failure, and preferring the brick- 

 yards to giving a run, I ordered Goodall to take the animal 

 as soon as possible. In the meanwhile I galloped back to 

 where I had left the deer-cart, and ordering the driver to 

 come on as quickly as possible, took it into a field with a, 

 brook for the first fence. The deer thus uncarted in the 

 presence only of myself, had plenty of time to look about him 

 and start off at his own pace. This it certainly did, for when 

 Goodall and the field came back nearly fifteen minutes had 

 elapsed. Yet on my telling Goodall to lay on the hounds, they 

 seemed to fly. I don't think I ever saw hounds run faster. 

 We all had to ride pretty hard to keep with them. Those 

 who hesitated were soon out of it. The line taken was over 

 West Hill Farm and straight up to Harrow School. There 

 we had rather a long check, the deer dodging about the 

 lanes. Goodall at last viewed the deer crossing the school 

 cricket-ground. He put on the hounds. The scent seemed as 

 good as in the morning, for the hounds again left us rising 

 the hill to where Kingsbury Races used to take place. It 

 was as much as the few who still remained could do to 

 keep them in sight. Turning to the right of Kingsbury by 

 Neasden to Willesden, the deer was eventually taken at 

 Brondesbury in a yard belonging to the late Mr. Sheward, 

 of Green Street. I consider this the best run I had with 

 the hounds.' 



Goodall's accounts of runs and incidents speak best for 

 themselves. Of the excellence of a day when a hind named 



