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the answer. '' I should like to have a cut in 

 very much, but my beasts can hardly do their 

 work, let alone chasing." 



" Oh, my dear fellow, you must name some- 

 thing. Look here, I'll tell you what I'll do ; — 

 I'll lend you that Irishman I bought the other 

 day. I was going to enter it myself, but 

 Sabretache will do equally weU for me. Put 

 down for Crossley, bay horse, Eed Eover, 

 5 years. Is that all right?" Banks breaks in 

 with much apparent innocence. 



" Was he in the stable at twelve o'clock this 

 morning?" Eaughton asked. 



"Yes, he's been there for the last week, 

 though I've never given him a turn and don't 

 know what he can do," Banks responded. 



Crossley' s protests that this would be destroy- 

 ing Banks's chance, as the new horse might turn 

 out well, were met by insistance on the part of 

 the owner of the Eed Eover, and finally the 

 Irishman was set down for Crossley. Purleigh 

 entered Playfellow, a big upstanding grey, on 

 which his master, as by courtesy he was called, 

 spent a good many uncomfortable hours. Lor- 

 rimer named one of a dangerous stud, St. 

 Patrick. A couple of fairly good hunters, 

 Witchcraft and Post Horn, swelled the list. 



"Heath, anything for you?" Eaughton in- 



