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clotliing — " iniutl, a steady pace only ; but not to be 

 pulled up till lie has finished his two miles." The task 

 happened to be only just begun when the pack broke 

 noisily into the field. Boy turned one eye and one ear 

 in the direction of the sound, and merely took tighter 

 hold of the head of Alderman, who himself paid very 

 little more attention to the interruption. Completing his 





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"BOY NEVER TURNED HIS HEAD, ALTERED HIS PACE, NOR MOVED 

 A MUSCLE." 



circle, Boy found that he was now doing his gallop in 

 company with a dozen men in scarlet. This mattered to 

 him not a jot. He neither mended nor slackened his 

 speed, but went with them to the end of the field ; then, 

 wheeling as he found an opening, performed another 

 circle, and accompanied a second detachment up the 

 fallow. By this time the field was full ; but Boy never 

 turned his head, altered his pace, nor moved a muscle. 

 He merelv counted his circles and steered his way 



