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up, especially when he was on his pet Canvass, whom 

 he rode (as Earl Wemyss did his celebrated Prince 

 Le Boo) for seventeen seasons. This grey horse was 

 purchased originally for 150 guineas, from Lord 

 Chetwyiide, and Mr. Assheton Smith offered 300 

 guineas in vain. Tabor, Tomboy, and Banbury all 

 did good service to Jim Morgan during his fifteen 

 years with the Essex; but Haydock, a fifteen-one 

 Partisan horse, and most wonderful at bank jumping, 

 was his best ; and one day he was nearly seventeen 

 hours and a-half on his back. This wonderful old 

 horseman who can still, though upwards of seventy, 

 drop into a lane or take the most cramped of stiles, 

 on Sultan or his rat-tailed Boot-maker, as if it was 

 mere child's play was the son of a tenant farmer at 

 Flottonbrook, in Suffolk, and commenced his career 

 on a pony given him by his uncle, when Mr. Lloyd, of 

 Hintlesham, kept harriers there. He distinguished 

 himself so much by charging a gate out of a lane, when 

 nearly a whole field got set fast, that when the har- 

 riers were transmuted into foxhounds, their master 

 and Parson Tweed went to his father, and got his con- 

 sent for Jim to become a whip. It was during his 

 eleven years' service that Mr. Lloyd had his 4 h. 20 m. 

 from Swallins Grove, and another of only five minutes 

 less, ending with a kill near Coombes Pie, after they 

 had run through twenty-four parishes. On the first 

 occasion, Jim rode his own black horse Mungo, whom 

 he bought and sold four times over, twice for 70, 

 once for 20, and finally for 15, when he had still 

 something left in him, though rising twenty-three ! 

 In the second of the runs the late Marquis of Angle- 

 sea made one of the 141 out of the 150 who were 

 beaten out of sight ; and even Miss Beverley, the 

 hitherto-untired mare of Harry Fenn, the huntsman, 

 shut up in the middle of a field, a mile from the finish. 

 Some few years after this Jim whipped-in and acted 

 as kennel huntsman to the Tickham hounds, when 



