VISCOUNT GALWAY'S HOUNDS. 5 



with the Grove or Burton, and to show the dis- 

 tances he rode, I would mention the following : — 

 One day he rode from Serlby on the bay hack to 

 Fiskerton Long Wood, six miles beyond Lincoln, 

 to hunt with the Burton, and rode back after 

 hunting. Another day he rode from Osberton 

 with Mr. G. S. Foljambe, and after a good forty 

 minutes with the Burton in the Brattleby country, 

 they galloped back and shot 40 cock pheasants in 

 Ashtons Wood. Another day he and Mr. Fol- 

 jambe, with a relay of hacks, rode from Osberton 

 to Bunny Park, and rode back after hunting with 

 the Quorn all day. Mr. Foljambe's hounds, run- 

 ning from Beckingham, crossed the river Idle 

 above Idle Stop, and my father went over in a 

 small row-boat, while his chestnut horse. Round 

 Robin, swam the river by himself without drinking 

 a drop of water. My father then rode with the 

 hounds across to Gate Wood by himself, and 

 getting the hounds together at dusk, he brought 

 them to Serlby, where he kept them all night, 

 Mr. Foljambe sending the hunt servants for them 

 next morning. He thought one of the quickest 

 gallops he ever rode was from Spridlington to 

 Wickenby in twenty minutes, when he was riding 

 a horse of Lord Henry Bentinck's, called Spotted 

 Boy, and he was much chaffed for jumping over a 

 hound. 



In April, 1866, a red deer stag had got out of 

 Welbeck Park, and, with the Duke's consent, my 



