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long faces, when the owner found that, without Bradley's 

 finger, he had not purchased a hunter. Remonstrances were 

 in vain, the dealer had an answer for them all. ' I am very 

 sorry. Sir, you cannot ride him, but I only sold the horse, 

 I cannot sell the rider.' His nonpareil boy, Harry, was 

 still a greater artist than his master ; for it is admitted, 

 three good runs under his tuition would complete the educa- 

 tion of a hunter, even for Lord Jersey. 



Mr. Burton, a tanner, of Nuneaton, on a small animal 

 only 14^ hands high, called Jack, was a match for most 

 men. Tom Smith, over the Leicestershire, by dashing at 

 a high timber fence, over which he thought it was not 

 possible the other could follow him. The huntsman's horse 

 knocked down the top bar, when Mr. Burton easily jumped 

 over, and in the next field was still close at his heels. 



Ben Holloway, an Oxfordshire man, was a good 

 horseman, and well known in Warwickshire. I have now- 

 known him upwards of 30 years, and when I saw him last 

 he was in his old place, ' close to their heels,' as Mat 

 Wilkinson says. 



Decidedly the best man Warwickshire ever saw, next 

 to Mr. R. Canning, was Mr. H. Wyatt, a native of that 

 sporting county, six feet three inches high, and weighing 

 15 stone, — Mr. Canning beat him by an inch, — who was 

 chiefly conspicuous in the period of Lord Middleton and 

 Mr. Shirley hunting the country, although he commenced 

 in Mr. Corbet's time. A more daring rider than Mr. 

 Wyatt, there not only cotild not be, but need not be ; for 

 if it were in the powers of his horse to carry him to hounds 

 there w^as nothing wanting on his part ; and it is due to him 

 to say, that a more gallant horseman England never saw. 



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