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It pleased them uncommonly. We took our fences 

 reg'lar all the time ; if he was first over he stopped for 

 me ; if I had fell he'd have jumped on me ; and blamed 

 if I wouldn't have jumped smack on top of him. We 

 fought back-hand — this way — any way we could cut. 

 Dal ! I was as strong as an elephant then ; we pulled 

 our horses slap bang up against each other ; he gives 

 me such tinglers on the back and shoulders ; but I 

 fetches him a clip with the hook-end of my whip on 

 the side of the head — such a settler — and gives him a 

 black eye. Then I says, " Bill, will you have any 

 and their Happy iHove, Tin ready prepared for you f We 

 Reconciliation, ^gre like brothers almost, after that. It 

 was all a mistake ; he thought I had been finding fault 

 with a grey horse he wanted to sell. It would be six 

 weeks before we spoke. It was Reeve, of the Falcon 

 Inn at Uppingham, brought that about. We had left 

 off at Launde Wood, and I stopped there for gruel. 

 Reeve says, '' What's this between you and Bill f Til 

 stand a bottle of wine to see you make it up ; let me send 

 for him, and see you shake hands i7i this very parlour f^ 

 '* Well r I says, '' I don't malice him, if he don't 

 malice me." So he comes, and we had a glass together, 

 all right. We were the biggest of friends after that. 

 Bill and me. Wright of Sysonby, sold lots of horses 

 Mr. Greene and to Lord Plymouth, for great prices. Mr. 

 Sysonby. Greene got Sysonby of him before he come 

 of age, and the two could go just. He was nearly as 

 good as " the bay mare ;" (singular thing Mr. Greene 

 never gave her a name) ; but not so great through 

 dirt. Sysonby gave Mr. Smith and Shac-a-bac a rare 

 showing up in the Harboro' country ; it was a strange 

 wild day ; they found in a patch of gorse near Gumley. 

 The wind blew the scent, and the hounds flashed over 

 it. Mr. Smith rides Gadesby first, and then on to 

 Shac-a-bac ; they had an hour and twenty minutes 

 racing all the way. There was only him and Mr. 

 Greene left. All on a sudden Shac-a-bac starts a 



