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came up and let them have it ; he said it was ' disgraceful,' 

 ' scandalous ; ' he told me to go back to Ladbroke to draw. 

 Colonel Anstruther Thompson said to me, as we were 

 trotting along, ' We shall have some sport, Bob, now that 

 those brutes have gone home ; they are the greatest brutes 

 I have ever seen ; how thej do annoy me every Wednesday ! ' 

 We ran from Ladbroke to Staverton, and killed him in a 

 brickyard. Colonel Thompson came up, and said, ' Well 

 done, Bob, you killed your fox well. What's that mare ? 

 It's a nailing good mare ; she carried you tip-top.' That 

 was Taglioni. 



" The Kilsby tunnel day ? Yes, I remember it well ; I 

 remember the date, because I was not out, and Mr. Lucy 

 was hunting the hounds. We met at Charlecote on 

 Monday, January .20tli, 18G6. I rode a grey horse called 

 Prickett. You remember him, sir ? He had horns on his 

 head, quite long — horns, two or three inches long. We 

 found at a little spinney. I was galloping across the park. 

 The horse came down, and pitched on his horns ; he came 

 right down on my ankle. Greorge Boxall, from the Noi-th 

 Warwickshire, jumped off and helped me wp. I got on 

 again, and we ran to Grrove Park, but I was very bad. I 

 had old Dr. Brown on Tuesday. 



" Old Railton, the saddler, made me a gaiter, and I never 

 had a boot on till next cubhunting. I could not have 

 cracked a walnut with that foot for two months. I was 

 out on the Monday after it happened, though the meet was 

 at Lighthorne, and old Mr. John Lucy came to me, and 

 said that he had not expected to see me for a month at 

 least. 



"On Tuesday, the .21st, Mr. Lucy hunted at Mitford, 

 and again on the Thursday, when they ran over the Kilsby 

 Tunnel to West Haddon. There was an old hound called 

 Banker ; Squire Drake gave him me ' to keep the 

 Warwickshire rogues straight.' How they did run hares 

 when I came. I used to be up on Chadshunt Hill 

 at four and five of a morning with them. I tell you 

 what I did ; I always used to let them break up 



