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during a steeple- chase, in 1829 ; but an authenti- 

 cated thirty -four feet was jumped twelve years after- 

 wards by Vanguard, at Rugby, and he does not, we 

 believe, stand alone. Worcestershire claims a similar 

 feat for Vainhope, and we have heard that a War- 

 wickshire horse, Potiphar, lately covered that dis- 

 tance. Melton Mowbray used to say that the little 

 piebald Magpie could clear any bar she could walk 

 under; but the Beverley men have, after all, the 

 most wonderful leaping legend about Euryalus, who 

 jumped out of his box at the Rose and Crown yard, 

 through a window only thirty-three inches by twenty, 

 and four feet and a-half from the ground, without 

 leaving a hair on the window frame. His stock did 

 not belie him in the field, and if any one doubts this 

 feat, let him seek the descendants of the ostler, and 

 he will doubt no longer. It was also the extraordi- 

 nary style in which he cleared a hurdle on a hedge 

 that induced Mr. Mytton to take entirely to Oliver, 

 whom he had only borrowed from his whip, who rode 

 up when his own mare had given him a header in a 

 brook ; and it is recorded in Shropshire that he did 

 really take a lane flying on his one-eyed Baronet, a 

 feat which is generally thought to ha^e been con- 

 fined to Moonraker. Will Goodall, who was Mr. 

 Drake's second horseman at thirteen, in a moment 

 of inspiration, once attempted to do the same, and 

 excused himself, when the master wigged him for 

 giving his horse such a cropper, by declaring that 

 he " thought it was a bruk" Will has been more en- 

 thusiastic and brilliant than ever, both in the field 

 and kennel, this season. Fox-hunting historians in 

 the 2000th century will have rare stories to tell of 

 him. We heard of him lately leaving his wearied 

 horse in a ditch, casting his hounds in the middle of 

 the next field, and then going back to get him out ; 

 and he has twice killed his fox on foot within the 

 last three months, running on one occasion more 

 than three-quarters of a mile. In the days of his 



