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into my mind, " that a blown fox lies down as soon as he 

 can," and cracking my whip over the place, had the supreme 

 satisfaction of seeing the fox jump out, when he was of 

 course instantly killed. One other follower of the hunt, 

 who had ridden the run, and the well-known " Peter " 

 Wilkinson, saw the fox broken up. As soon as the latter had 

 seen the way the fox was going, he had galloped down the 

 road as hard as he could and got there just in time for the 

 finale. Before anyone else arrived nothing but fragments 

 remained, and when the late Mr. G. Lane Fox came up, I 

 never saw him more delighted in my life, although he was 

 rather by way of preferring long hunting runs to the short 

 and merry ones. " Peter " Wilkinson had been one of the 

 associates of the Marquis of Hastings, and the story of his 

 connection with " Lecturer " has often been told. After 

 the Marquis had struck out all his candidates for the 

 Cesarewitch, " Lecturer " happened to be put into a trial, 

 and won so easily that it was in anguish of spirit that 

 Lord Hastings and John Day recalled the fact that the 

 horse was no longer able to start. Suddenly it was 

 remembered that from some whim " Lecturer " had been 

 entered in Mr. H. V. Wilkinson's name instead of that of 

 the Marquis, and therefore the fatal order to scratch all the 

 horses of the latter did not apply to him. He was 

 accordingly very heavily backed, and won the race. As 

 soon as the horse had passed the winning-post, and been 

 weighed in, a prominent bookmaker came up to Wilkinson, 

 who had owed him a heavy sum for a considerable 

 time, and said, " Now sir, you've won a pot of money, and 

 I am very glad of it, but I've been very good to you, and 

 never yet asked you for what you owe me. I think you 

 must pay up now." " Oh, certainly," replied " Peter," " you 



