228 THE WAEWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1855 



to the station, and the Banhiirij train had not arrived. I 

 put the horse up, gave him a feed, and when my party 

 arrived they could hardly believe their eyes at seeing me in 

 the refreshment room, and I drove back home after the 

 races." 



Besides losing his right arm, he had many bad 

 accidents. He pointed out to me a place once, when we 

 were riding home together from hunting, between Chipping 

 Warden and Wardington, where, going down a long, steep 

 hill, the near wheel of his dogcart came off. He was shot 

 over into the fence, and the wheel "trundled on" down the 

 middle of the road the full length of the hill, which was a 

 couple of hundred yards or more. 



Although he owned and bred some lirst-class horses 

 and sold them well, he was unlucky, and, towards the close 

 of his Hfe, fell into bad times I fear. When at last he 

 died, in 1876, there was not a man who knew him, 

 particularly all those he used to meet in the hunting field 

 and racecourse, but mourned his loss. — H. C. N. 



We have no notice of any run during 1855. 

 At this time, Mr. Poole, the famous tailor, and Mr. 

 James Mason had a hunting box together at Winslow. A 

 young Oxford man, who employed Mr. Poole, considered it 

 rather swagger that he should keep a stud of twelve horses, 

 and gave out that he would blow him up in public at a 

 Hunt breakfast that was coming off the next week for 

 making- him a coat which did not fit. Another Oxford 

 man, who also employed Mr. Poole, and owed him money, 

 thought he would do him a turn, and get longer credit by 

 forewarning him, so, when the first-mentioned man tackled 

 Mr. Poole at breakfast, the latter pulled a piece of chalk 

 out of his pocket, and said he would soon put the coat 

 right, and chalked him all over the back ! 



In 1855-1856, Jones hunted the hounds, and W. 

 Enever and J. Cummings were first and second whips. 



I remember in 1855, when at Oxford, twice riding 

 thirty-two miles to covert to Wolford Wood, and when I 

 mentioned this to Mr. Harry Bourke, he told me that he 



