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US a riglit good line — and fortunately did not liuny us 

 over the brook on the Burton Flat. Three or four men 

 jumped it ; many others scrambled in and out ; and there 

 was ample time to go round. But over the top of Gar- 

 tree Hill (just avoiding the covert) they made the pace 

 much better ; and, leaving Great Dalby to the right, 

 went straight and nicely to the earths between Adam's 

 Gorse and Thorpe Satchville in the Quorn countr}'. 

 Had the test, of country and pace, been yet more severe, 

 tliere were riders with hounds quite equal to meeting it — 

 for instance Mr. Bainl, Lord Manners, Major Starkey, 

 Capt. Smith, Capt. Blair, Messrs. Barclay, Beaumont, 

 Brocklehurst, Arthur Coventr}", Deschamps, G. Farquhar, 

 Jacobson, Marshall, Pennington. 



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