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father on one occasion because he would not allow her to wear spurs. 

 But, as Jack told us a couple of years ago, " She's gettin' ower awd fur 

 those kahnd o' things, ya know, now, Sir." The said Tip would carry 

 no one but Jack or " the lassie," and was a thundering big sixteen- two 



JACK PARKER ON JUMBO, WITH HIS FAVOURITE HOUND, FAIRPLAY. 



Irish horse, that could jump a tower. He once topped a wall of Lord 

 Feversham's built to keep the deer back. And when Jack was on the 

 road from Thirsk to Northallerton, settled a dispute with the pike 

 woman by treating her gate in the same cavalier fashion ; though, 

 with tears in her eyes, the old lady begged Jack to desist, and she 

 would let him through free rather than he should risk his neck at the 

 attempt. While the foxes are at rest in the summer months, Parker 

 keeps his hand in at the badgers, and, strange to say, his hounds will 

 not speak to a fox when so engaged, and throw quite a different note 

 when hunting " brock," Perhaps of the two he likes better to get 

 away with Mr. Gallon's otter hounds, and swears " there nivver was 

 sike music heeard ez that." At the hound show at York, Lord Polti- 

 more very much wanted to see him, and was duly introduced by Mr. 

 Parrington, when Jack held out his hand and said, " Ah'm varry 

 pleased to see you." They got on very well, in spite of the desperately 

 broad Yorkshire dialect in which Jack indulges, making an interpreter 

 all but necessary when he fraternises with a South-countryman. His 

 Lordship wanted to hear a real Yorkshire view-holloa — " Then by 

 jove, you shall," shouted Jack, and gave one ! No doubt Jack is the 



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