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and fallow. In vain did a yokel rush from his har- 

 rows, and with outstretched hands and wild dances 

 endeavour to harry them back from the arable, as if 

 they had been sheep. The Lancashire lads laughed 

 the " Johnny Cake" to scorn, and formed, after one or 

 two light skirmishes with another protectionist, into 

 a marching column of nearly a quarter of a mile along 

 the road. They enter into coursing as they do into 

 Bolton creels, or pigs, or flowers, or bell-ringing, or 

 glee-singing — with a will. " Live Hare /" is a great 

 shout of theirs when a favourite dog is beginning to 

 work off the points against him. They have bets on 

 from a pot of ale upwards, but we heard one of them 

 refuse to do anything on King Death's courses, " be- 

 cause I'se afear'd Fd dee if I backed him!' Sometimes 

 if a favourite kennel is to be sold off, they will follow 

 it from a sort of chivalrous feeling up to Aldridge's. 

 When they do get there, if they can find a carriage in 

 the sale-shed, they as often as not get in and sleep 

 through half the sale. Two were once reposing most 

 peacefully in a phaeton when a stentorian offer of 70 

 guineas for Mr. Borron's Bright Steel fairly roused 

 them up — "Seventy guineas" said one to his fellow 

 sleeper, " why, you and I, lad, wouldri t fetch that the- 

 gither /" We once heard a still more emphatic senti- 

 ment as a pair of them walked over the Liverpool 

 steeple-chase ground to take up a position. A number 

 of grooms and helpers were standing near a brook 

 jump, and one of the pair caught a few words of their 

 conversation. He stopped, with quite a beaming 

 countenance, " Eh ! Jack, lad ! Fll gan noe father — 

 they say tJieres been fowre lives lossen Jiere — dal, it's the 

 best jump of the lot — well stop where we are? On the 

 coursing field itself there was an old fellow with a 

 pole collecting sixpences to jump over the great cut 

 and uniformly landing up to his waist in the middle. 

 He was not so drunk as he pretended to be, and he 

 made a nice amount by becoming " a water-baby." 



