288 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [1866 



Joues used to go well, especially on a liorse called Kossuth, 

 bought from Kench, of Dunchurch, a brown horse, 

 one of the best in England. One day someone told me that 

 Jones wanted him. ' That's your best way to him,' said 

 Mr. Chamberlayne, of Thorpe, pointing to the Farn- 

 borough Brook, and over I went. Ben Morgan had made 

 most of these horses that Jones rode ; he was a fine horse- 

 man. There were Lady Jane, Hazard, Belinda, a bay 

 mare Gibson (the stud groom) bought from Ireland with 

 seven others, and Rapid Ehone ; you remember him, sir ? 

 (' 1 should think I did,' I answered, ' Why, he taught 

 Lord Willoughby and me to ride, and no better horse for 

 a boy was ever backed, and his roaring never stopped him 

 with us.') Well, he never roared then, and although 

 Jones said one day that he gave him four or five falls, I 

 don't think he could have ; Jim Stracey was whip, and 

 Harry Ayris second. 



"In L^5() I went to the South Staffordshire under Joe 

 Maiden ; the hounds were then at Wolstanton, near 

 Burslem. ]\Ir. Davenport did the thing well. There were 

 often five Miss Davenports out on horses worth 150 or 

 200 guineas apiece. Mr. Jack Mytton was often visiting 

 there. I remember young Mr. Davenport well as a boy ; 

 I was second whip there for one season. Tom Atkinson 

 was first, one of the best whippers-in I have ever seen ; he 

 was huntsman afterwards. I had some nice horses there. 

 I remember a brown mare that Mr. Davenport took to 

 college with him — a clinker. Then I went as first whipper 

 to West Kent; Colonel Stratford and Mr. William 

 Armstrong were masters, Greorge Beers was huntsman, 

 poor Frank's brother. It w^as the year the Princess Eoyal 

 was married, I remember how it rained and blew the day 

 they embarked for Germany. George Beers was a fine 

 huntsman ; he was a young man, but a capital chap to hunt a 

 pack of hounds, as quick as lightning. They used to cap 

 for us then, and it used to help us to look after them sharp. 

 I had to hunt the hounds the last fortnight. You see I 

 was well trained ; it is a great thing to have a good grinding 



