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try or buy if it suited. " I have tried the pony," 

 wrote the old baronet, " and I find he can gallop 

 when he is squeezed, but if I do too much of that 

 I am afraid there might be two of him, and that 

 would never do ! " The pony was a flat-sided one 

 and a trifle light through the loin, which did not 

 please Sir Thomas, who liked his hunter cast in 

 the mould as near perfection as possible. 



A stout October cub is not far removed from a 

 November fox, and a good morning's sport was 

 enjoyed from Stoke Pastures to Harlaxton, where 

 the market carts were met on their way to 

 Grantham town. A small field included Mr. 

 Markham, Mr. C. Samuda, Major Longstaffe, Mrs. 

 and Miss Hornsby, Mr. Richard Ord, and Miss 

 Turner from Stoke. Again from Kaye Wood, at the 

 end of the month, hounds raced an old fox pointing 

 for Quorn domains, crossing the Smite, which had 

 to be negotiated, one of those who got successfully 

 over being Will Tidey, the late Wiverton keeper. 

 It is not often that a hard-riding keeper is heard of, 

 but Will Tidey was one trained by Mr. Chaworth 

 Musters, who liked his men to ride, and was a 

 friend to keepers out of place through shooting 

 foxes ; and in this way he converted many vulpicides 

 from the error of their way. 



Curious weather marked the commencement of 

 the season, but much good sport was enjoyed, 

 hounds accounting for their foxes day after day. 

 An old customer was roused in Heydour Southings 

 on November llth, and hounds raced him through 

 Culverthorpe domains by Kelby and Wilsford 



