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S TEEPLE- Chasing 



to magnify the excellence of their steeds, or, perhaps, 

 the capacity of the steeds' riders, after dinner. At this 

 period — just after an excellent repast when a glass of 

 superb olive port has followed a good deal of champagne 

 —fences are very apt to grow remarkably in height. 

 That jump out of the plough was a good- sized one at 



Since our Forefathers had Spins against each other 



twelve o'clock in the morning. There was an awkward 

 ditch on the take-off side, the landing was indefinite, 

 and the binders made jumping it necessary — an attempt 

 to run through would have resulted in a turn-over, it 

 could not be else. But it was not the enormous place it 

 presents itself to the imagination of the man who jumped 



