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'l)e rop of 'Eatigpoor
His Lordship was globe-trotting and
g( tting tired of lifo on tho P. and 0.t
(topped a month at Tangpoor. Ho was
a good fellow not a bit of a enob, and
took to the men at tho club from tho
first. The little dinnerp, and a few of
the dances ho enjoyed. Tho ladies pos
sessed individuality, and tho girls were
jolly and could thfok for themselves.
His Lordship detested tho conventional
girl.
But the one thing which ho enjoyed
above all othsrs was the fox hunting.
He was an enthusiast on hunting, and
when ho found that there were some
really first class horses, aijd,tbat the men
would take them over a flvo or six birred
gate, or a nasty ditch without thinking
any thing of it, he made a mental note
that nis stay should be prolonged un
definilely." Then tho women! There is
only one time in the history of fcx hunt
ing in Tangpoor when a woman failed to
follow a man at any thing, and that is
excused by the fact that she was not of
Tangpoor, but merely a visitor who had
stopped over for a week on her way
home.
j. an tuoee wno nuntau, none tooK so yd
much pleasure in the sport as Dora Car. 4
ven. bae was a little slip of a girl, only
nineteen, but she could ride, and her
father had given her, her choico of his
stables. It was a pleasure to eec her go
sailing over a hedge with her veil stream
ing out behind, sitting on hsr horse (irm
ly, and laughing to her self frona puro
happiness.
His Lordship had been particularly
pleased with her riding, until one day as
they were almo-t to take a gate her horse
grew spunky and stopped short His
Lordship went on over and stopping,
turned about and watted for her. She
knew her horso however, and said, "I
can't do it,' meaning she could not
make her horse go over. He frowned,
for be thought she was afraid, but open
ed the gate for her to pass and several
others who had come up at this time.
Dora did not like what had happened
but hoped that at tho next run of the
hounds to make up for it. It happened
however that his Lordship had casually
mentioned to one of the men at the club
that he feared Miss Craven was losing
her nerve, and of course in time this
reached her ears. She stamped an
an?ry foot and shut her lips f'ghtly.
That afternoon she did no go to the ride,
but sat iu her room thinking and
paunding'a pitted rose all to pieces
with her whip. Finally a plan evolved
itself, and gathering up her skirt she
ran out upon tbe back verarda.
"Bring out Jim," she cried to one of
the stable toys. And in five minutes he
came out leading a great raw boned wal
ler, which was Doras chief pride and
best hunter. She examined him all
over, carefully feeling his tirm, shiny
legs until she was satisfied that there
was not a weak spot about him. Then
she mounted and put him over a low
hedge or two on tho lawn and a wall
that was sunken for a foot or two, watch
ing him closely all the time as he took
the jump. After half an hour of this
kind of work she took him back to the
stable boy. When she went to her room
she was smiling, but nevertheless she
bad a determined look.
The day which she had chosen for tho
execution of her plan was the following
Saturday, and on that day she rode up
to the county'Keld hou6o onher'Waller
as ccol and apparently the same as ever.
The hunt was to be a good one, for it
wes a damp day and the fox was a wary
old fellow who always sat them a hard
trail and a rough one to ride. There
were some thirty started and it was
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Ioog before the fox was out of cover and
tho pack in full cry.
Two or threo miles had be2n passed
and the riders were strung out along the
couraowith his Lordship and Dora in
the lead. The pace had been a warm
one and both horses were breathing
rather freely when suddenly, the fox
broke cover almost under their feet
with two or three of the old dogs close
behind. All were perfectly quiet. With
out a word Dora Eet her horse after and
he tore over tho rough ground and was
a good hundred feet ahead before his
Lordship was started.
She tcokalow stone.fenco and then a
small hedge with perfect ease. As his
net Lordship came over tho latter he saw
men talk at the club of young "Devil''
Cavesberry riding at the old sunken
wall and when they roJe around to
where he was, they found him with his
neck broken. No one had tried tho
"drop" since that day. His heart came
up in his mouth when he thought of it.
He had seen a similar thin; happen at
hooie. and it had made him sick e7er
since!
He 6lowly pulled his horse down to a
trot, and when he reached the well, be
Raw Dora sittioe calmly waiting. She
had taken the "drop" as coolly as a I wo
barred fence, it
It's (o long going around. But I sup
pose these are common thinzs with you
folks at home. We really have nothing
here that makes any excitement. If you
are ready we will go."
"Where is the ioxV be asked slowly.
"Oh I don't know, I'm suie. He didn't
coma thi? way. but I am tired and
thought I would take a short cut home."
That evening his Lordshin repeated
what had happened to the fellows at the
club, and they vot2d her the best and
bravest tox hunter in Tangpoor, and
promised her the next three fox skins.
It was only when his Lordship told them
that the L eat and bravest fox hunter in
wn! nnf. Ipsa tl .in
notnirg or the degs and fox, but there twelve or fifteen feet and when
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uucau ui uuu was uoin nuing uaru ana ""'"""i' '" ""U ui.iuo uiiu i"ci neu iu niui in r.ntiana, taat anvbodv
never looking back once. Suddenly he l?lBtx a?a'n- "?. r.oU? awav and ,ed expressed di83atisfac:ion. It was bard
her go out or sight. Hn did not know
what had happened, but h; heard the
his Tangpoor had asrcsd to go and be mar
f-el ried to him in England, that any bod;
his horse down a little knoll and when
he cam up to her. she said:
"My Lord on should have jumpad it.
lucttolose the only rersoti who had
ever Jumped the "drop" and came out
alive. Geo. C.Shecd.