338 THE WAETVICKSHTRE HrXT. [187 S 



diarv. I entered the date, and I well remember it, because 

 only ]Mr. William Miller and Colonel Skipwith were at 

 the meet ; there had been a frost, and there was some 

 snow on the ground. I rode a horse called Tenbmy, 

 whose name is also entered in my diary. He was a bad- 

 tempered chesnut horse, but a fine himter and a great 

 staver in deep ground. I hunted him for eight seasons, 

 and his first o^Tier hunted him four days in one week. I 

 used to send him the longest distances to covert, because if 

 he was sent a short distance, he was always trying to get 

 home. During the last season of hunting him, I sent him 

 on only three miles, and, just before getting on him, he 

 turned round with the boy who was riding him, and ti-ied 

 to get home ; the boy sat on him well, but when the horse 

 found that he could get him off no other way, he threw 

 himself dovm and rolled his rider oif. — C. M. 

 The Eev. TT. Miller's diary [contiiitied) : 



February 14:th. — ^Met at Fenny Compton. Rode Zimri. Drew TVatergall 

 blank. Fonnd at once in Ladbroke Gorse. and had a fine run of an honr, 

 leaTing' Priors Marston to the right, nearly np to Helidon, then back to 

 Shuckbnrgh, to gronnd. The first thirty-fiTe minntes very fast over a fine 

 grass conntry : the remainder a fair hnnting pace. Went back to Ladbroke. 

 and fonnd agaiii. Had a pretty scurry by Hodnell Farm, to ground in the 

 gorse at TVatergall. 



^arch Blst, The Toicer. — A poor day. Thus ended the season, the best 

 for many years ; 48J brace of foxes brought to hand, and a vast nmuljer run to 

 ground. 



During this season three foxes were found in trees 

 when we were hunting at Walton. On one occasion my 

 keeper told me that he had seen three foxes on one large 

 tree early in the morning. I went to the place, and was 

 in time to see two of them, but the third had gone. 



I heard the following naiTative about a gentleman 

 hunting in Cheshire, who had a large stud of horses, but did 

 not give them sufficient exercise In consequence of this, 

 some of them found out that they could take advantage of 

 him, and ran away with him. He was a bold rider, but a 

 bad horseman. On one occasion, when riding in a run with 

 the Cheshire hounds, he saw that they were approaching a 

 more than usually big fence, and knowing that his horse 



