30 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. :i8o7 



that lio must roll ovor you two or three times at least before you cau pick 

 yourself up aijaiii. 



" And when not he cranes." 



The term derives its origin from tlie necessary extension of neck of such 

 sportsmen as dare to incur the reproach by venturing to look before they 



leap. 



" See Allesley's great Peer," " Lord Clonmell;" " Jack Ketch, too," the 

 Hnntsman; "the Warwickshire Sciuire," Mr. Corbet. 



" In a very good style." 



Style means the best jiossible manner of doing auytliing, as, for instance, 

 when a man rides his horse full speed at double posts and rails, with a squire 

 trap on the other side (which is a moderate ditch of about two yards wide on 

 purpose to break gentlemen's necks). He is then reckoned at Melton to have 

 rode at it in style, especially if he is caught in the said squire trap. 



Mr. Reginald Wynniatt, a Grloucesterslnre man, often 

 hunted with the Warvvick.shire Hounds, and was chiefiy 

 noted as a very jealous rider, who, regardless of hounds or 

 sport, would ride at anything for the sake of selling his 

 horse. He had a mare not quite fifteen hands high, but 

 long and wide, and possessed of every good quality for a 

 hunter. After riding her several seasons, he sold her to 

 Mr. Walsh Porter for 200 guineas, who also at the same 

 time gave Sir Grey Skipwith that sum for much such 

 another animal. These two mares were the extent of Mr. 

 Porter's stud, but one or other of them was always ready 

 for him, and few men in Warwickshire went out oftener, 

 or got better to hounds, than Mr. Porter. But there was 

 a peculiarity in his style of riding — I mean the long stirrup 

 leather. In this instance it had a more remarkable 

 appearance, as he was 6ft. high, and his mare so low\ 

 One feared, indeed, as he charged the rasping fences of 

 Warwickshire — which he did in gallant style — that his 

 feet might strike them, by their hanging so much below 

 the belly of his mare. Mr. P. had likewise an excellent 

 hand. Mr. Wynniatt purchased his old mare again after 

 she had done her work, and sold two hunters out of her, 

 by Fyldener, to Colonel Berrington for 500 guineas. On 

 one occasion he was carried to a farmhouse after getting a 

 very bad fall, and while he was lying insensible two friends 

 of the farmer asked him how it had happened. The farmer 

 replied that the fall had been entirely due to the horse. 



