242 ANOTHER OUTBREAK. 



at escape they liad approaclied within a mile of 

 Charbourg Park, when, on passing a farm, a 

 brown nanny-goat was grazing with some cattle. 

 The attention of the pack was instantly arrested 

 by this object, taking it for a deer, with which, 

 inter alia, they had finished the previous season's 

 sport. Jumper bolted fairly away at once ; but 

 the goat showed fight, standing on her hind legs, 

 until Foreman, catching her by the tail, with a 

 loud ba-ah she started for the farm yard, with the 

 pack at her heels — Jem rating and swearing, cows 

 bellowing, with twisted tails erect in the air, and 

 the old Squire bringing up the rear, in dreadful 

 anticipation of the result, muttering to himself 

 as usual, " Good heavens ! what will they do 

 next !" 



Round and round the farm yard they tore (the 

 gates being closed), the goat ba-ah-ing, women 

 screaming, cocks and hens cackling, the farmer 

 and his men with pitchforks vainly attempting to 

 knock them over — when Jem, turning his horse, 

 met the party in full career ; but, in aiming a 

 desperate blow at Jumper, he overbalanced him- 

 self, and fell from his horse, which galloped away. 

 Nowise disconcerted, and savagely bent on re- 

 venge, Jem pursued the delinquents on foot, 

 when the farmer's wife, throwing open the gate 



