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better sport. After four seasons with Mr. Tailby, Bailey 

 was enoaoed as second whip to the North Warwickshire, 

 when Tom Firr was huntsman. Of him Bailey, to 

 this day. speaks reverentially as "the best schoolmaster 

 I ever had." But Bailey had one season only under " The 

 Huntsman," who then went to hunt the Quorn ; and at the 

 e.xpiration of his second season in Warwickshire, Bailey 

 went north, to become second whip to the Duke of 

 Buccleuch, under that perfect huntsman, Shore. At the 

 end of the first or second season he was promoted to be 

 first whip, remaining with the Duke for si.\ or seven 

 seasons, and then succeeded Dobson, as huntsman of the 

 Essex, as already mentioned. 



On Bailey's appointment, Dobson's second whip, Fred 

 Firr, was promoted to be first whip, and Charles Little- 

 worth (son of Lord Portsmouth's huntsman), from Lord 

 Portman, was engaged in his place. Crawley, a most 

 popular and trustworthy old servant, who had acted as 

 second horseman to Dobson, and to Wilson before him, 

 retained his post under the new management. He knew 

 every gap in the country, and was always there when 

 wanted. Many a dandy, both in the shires and out of 

 them, with an ambition to "hang a good boot," would have 

 given something for Crawley's legs. No bootmaker who 



