That night Pollock turned up at Roebury about nine o'clock, very hungry,--and it was known that his animal was alive;--but the poor horse ate not a grain of oats that night, nor on the next morning.

Vavasor had again taken a line to himself, on this occasion a little to the right of the meet; but Maxwell followed him and rode close with him to the end.

Burgo for a while still led the body of the field, incurring at first much condemnation from Sir William,--nominally for hurrying on among the hounds, but in truth because he got before Sir William himself.

During this latter part of the run Sir William stuck to the hounds in spite of his seventy odd years.

Going down into Marham Bottom, some four or five were left behind, for they feared the soft ground near the river, and did not know the pass through it.