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an opportunity of seeing liow the men sit down on tlieir 

 horses and gallop to hounds over these noble uplands. 

 Whilst I am talking the fox is making his way back 

 to Lord Gage^s cover at Glyndebourne, where he was 

 found ; but Champion soon made the place too hot to 

 hold him, and a "holloa'^ from a shepherd on the 

 hill, tells us that he is away again. Then we hunt 

 him slowly over the marshes, goii^g i^ the direction of 

 the Firle Union, crossing a brook on our way. Here 

 an incident occurred that caused no little merriment 

 for the moment. A horse and his rider differed as to 

 the crossing of this somewhat deep and dirty-looking 

 stream. The rider was Willing, but the horse was 

 not ; the latter inclining to lie down in the water, 

 but the former, who has the habit of hoarding up his 

 resources, being equal to the occasion, speedily extri- 

 cated himself from the difficulty and cleverly posted 

 the unwilling animal on the high ground on the other 

 side. After crossing the brook, the hounds hunted 

 their fox steadily until they threw up in a road ; then, 

 Champion, making a quick and clever cast, soon 

 picked up the scent, and ran his fox for a little while 

 longer ; but, the weather continuing wet and windy, 

 we let him steal away, in the hopes of meeting him 

 again some other day. In the opinion of one of the 

 hardest riders to hounds, who is accustomed to hunt 

 in the shires, these are an excellent pack of hounds, 

 showing capital sport over a varied and difficult 

 country, and killing their stout and wild foxes in good 

 style, an opinion in which T heartily concur, after 

 seeing how they performed on this deplorable day. 

 Then going at a hand- gallop along the seven miles 

 that led us back to Lewes, the little horse pulling 



