. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . were away till theyhad a start of a couple of fields of plough. Deep plough isscarcely ground on which to make up lost time, more esi)eciallywhen, as now, each foot-lifting is a labour; nor did narrowcrowded gateways and a fifty-acre piece of ridge-and-furrow (soguiltless of drainage that both landlord and tenant must be bank-rupt, or at the least deserve to be) facilitate the task of catch-ing them as they flew along the vale. Had they raced on, thequ
. The cream of Leicestershire : eleven seasons' skimmings, notable runs and incidents of the chase, selected and republished from "The Field" . were away till theyhad a start of a couple of fields of plough. Deep plough isscarcely ground on which to make up lost time, more esi)eciallywhen, as now, each foot-lifting is a labour; nor did narrowcrowded gateways and a fifty-acre piece of ridge-and-furrow (soguiltless of drainage that both landlord and tenant must be bank-rupt, or at the least deserve to be) facilitate the task of catch-ing them as they flew along the vale. Had they raced on, thequicker few never would have been caught; but the hesitationof a second or two lets uj) some twenty more, and then the pacegrows hot again as they round Burrough, the village on their. — rt f5 1872-73.] LAST IlUN OF 1872 WITH THE COTTESMORE. 75 right. A deep down-liill fence, of nondescript style and diffi-culty, puts two good couple liors de combat. The next isindeed a teaser, where the best horse in the Shires mightcrack under the saddle. A fair broad ditch to smile in yourface, a high plashed fence frowning blackly above it, like thelaughing eyes you may often see, that tell not so truly of thenatm-e within as the dark cruel brows that can carry no falseexpression. It may be a lion heart and stout loins that areunder you; but these will scarcely take you beyond a secondditch, grass-grown, invisible, and wide. Five loose horses arecareering about at once, five pairs of Hartleys are stumblingover the fallow, and five pairs of lungs are gasping a wildentreaty to Stop him! The survivors have escaped,either with a long-drawn struggle, or by making use of abreach efiected by a less fortunate forerunner. Now the chase is fairly in the wild open Twyford countr}^still b
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