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had the Hunt, paid them the same sum, and they adhered 

 to the faith of their engagement. 



To the last year of his life Mr. Corbet was remarkable 

 for the neatness of his person, and extreme gentlemanly 

 appearance. His manners were peculiarly adapted to a 

 man at the head of a pack of foxhounds ; being civil and 

 obliging to the whole field, and particularly to the farmers, 

 by whom he was much respected, and the destruction of a 

 fox by foul play was never heard of in Warwickshire. 



In society Mr. Corbet was a most cheerful, as well as 

 an entertaining companion. I was once present when an 

 anecdote was told of a gentleman having purchased a pack 

 of foxhounds, but on their arrival at his house his wife 

 went into fits initil they were sent back to their original 

 owner. ' If my wife had done so,' said Mr. Corbet, ' I 

 would never have kissed her again until she took off her 

 night-cap, and cried 'tally-ho." — nimrod. 



The observation has been made by more Sportsmen 

 than one, that Warwickshire, next to Leicestershire, is the 

 finest sporting county in England, and in heavy seasons 

 preferable even to that county. A blank day very rarely 

 occurs, and many of the covers are seldom drawn without 

 finding a fox. 



Mr. Corbet's motto was — ' Deus pascit corvos.' 



