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mounted them at once without assistance. One of us 

 remembers seeing him on one occasion, when he saw a 

 countryman on the ojDposite side of a brook which hounds had 

 crossed, dismount, drive his horse through the water, and 

 then jump the brook on foot after his horse had been 

 caught. He rode 23st., but what did tliat matter? Mr. 

 Surtees says of the immortal Jorrocks -. " He didn't ride 

 stipple chases, and what matter did it make 'ow much he 

 weighed ? It was altogether a matter 'twixt him and his 

 'oss, and weighin' would not make him any lighter." 



The second horsemen and others had a great opinion 

 of his pilotage, which was nearly always correct. One 

 day they ran a fox somewhere ne^ar Cloldicote sharp for 

 twenty minutes and killed him. The late Lord Wil- 

 loughby asked Berkshire, who was then huntsman, where 

 Mr. Grreaves was. "I'm sure I don't know, my lord." All 

 of a sudden he pulled his horse up on top of a hill, and 

 exclaimed, " There he is ; and laws, what a tail he's got 

 after him ! " Mr. Henley Grreaves was for once riding 

 in exactly the opposite direction from the hounds, followed 

 by about twenty or thirty ladies and others.''' 



SEASON" 1858-59. 



The following resolution was passed at a meeting at 

 Wellesbourne on November 18th, 1858. Eagley Park, 

 Bevington Waste, Eough Hill, Three Oaks, Hill Wood, 

 and Old Park Wood, may be drawn by Mr. Baker as 

 neutral coverts, the Warwickshire reserving the right of 

 drawing them at present ; pro\T.ded also that no cubs be 

 removed by either party from the country, which, by 

 arrangement, the North Warwickshire have permission to 

 draw. 



From the Rev. W. S. Miller's diary : 



Tuesday, December 28th. — Very fine inorning-, which turued into a -wet 

 afteruoou. Weut out hunting at Mitford Bridge, and had a very good day's 



* Lord Willoughby de Broke inserted this story in liis ■' Eeminiscences of 

 Hunting," Badminton Magazine, Jan. 189G, but I leave it iu as it was already in type. 

 — W. R.V. 



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