about nine o'clock
Pollock confined himself to hoping that he might soon be killed , and that thus his triumph for the day might be assured . On they went , and the pace soon became too good for the poor author . His horse at last refused a little hedge , and there was not another trot to be got out of him . 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 .