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could not be moved from Whittlebury for a long 

 time. The gentlemen I mentioned did the country 

 justice ; they knew all the farmers, and were 

 always welcome. 



There were some good men of our own in 

 those days : Lord Charles FitzRoy, Mr. Rainald 

 Knightley, the present Lord Harrington, Mr. 

 Stratton, and Mr. Fred Yilliers, until he left and 

 went to the Pytchley country. Lord Barrington 

 jumped the biggest water-jump I ever heard of 

 in the country ; it was near Towcester. I went 

 with a friend and put the tape over it last summer. 

 A horse cannot get over without jumping 27 feet, 

 but the depth of the banks are enough to shy 

 any horse. I saw it done. I don't think it 

 wall be exceeded very soon. \\\ those days 

 we were always jumping water. Two lines of 

 railway have changed the line foxes used to run 

 very much. 



Time passed on, and cub-hunting came for the 

 before-mentioned combined pack. Lord Southamp- 

 ton would give his orders, which were very strict, but 

 would not hunt himself until the middle of October^ 

 unless he thought things were not going right. The 

 huntsman was told at the beginning not to run an 

 old fox. " Get on to cubs, and keep in the woods ,* 

 by no means go over a country. In the first place 



