44 HUNTING REMINISCENCES 



Mr. 'Bob' Chapman of Cheltenham, and the 

 figure was always the same, 350 apiece. During 

 the seven seasons that I was whip to these 

 hounds we were only allowed one horse a day, and 

 we had to arrange with one another that whoever 

 got away with hounds in the morning had to go on 

 up to the huntsman through the run, the one left 

 behind bringing on the tail hounds. It was a hard 

 day's work for one horse, but it is astonishing what 

 a well-bred one can do, and we liked it better than 

 did Lord Henry Bentinck's servants, who were 

 over-horsed with three or four a day at about 300 

 guineas apiece. The Burton Hunt horses were so 

 full fresh that the men could not ride them to turn 

 hounds quickly, and they gave them more falls than 

 did our slaves. Goodall the first whip was allowed 

 two, and he was a hard bruising horseman. One of 

 those that he rode was a chestnut mare, bought of 

 Mr. Bedford, the Grantham tanner, and I always say 

 that she taught Mr. James Hutchinson to ride. His 

 father before him, tall in build, with snow-white hair, 

 was a splendid man across country. I remember him 

 jumping a very wide brook by Garthorpe, and the 

 singular point about it was that I never saw this 

 place jumped by any one else except his son James 

 some years later, when riding the particular chest- 

 nut mare we were speaking about. Hounds swam 

 over the brook, and you may always be sure it is a 

 big place when you see them swim, and as I turned 

 to the left for the ford I saw Mr. James Hutchinson 

 sail down to it and get well over, exactly where 

 his father had it, of which fact he was in ignorance 



