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the Cheshire had their tremendous run (of which a 

 map has been published), and Joe rode three horses 

 that day, and finished on a hack. The fox broke 

 from Darley's Gorse at half-past eleven, crossed the 

 Willock Brook three times, and doubled into a ditch 

 near Brereton's Gorse for nearly an hour, Joe being 

 utterly unable to help the hounds, as the farmer and 

 his servants went on guard with pitchforks. How- 

 ever, they went in and made it out for themselves, 

 and a run from point to point of about twenty-five 

 miles ended with a kill by moonlight. This was on 

 November 25th, 1842, and the year previous Pevo- 

 rett was given to Joe after having been bought 

 in for 350, 370, and 500, in succession, when 

 Sir Harry Mainwaring, Mr. Jeffrey Shakerley, and 

 lastly Mr. Smith Barry gave up the hounds who 

 sold him for 200 guineas to Sir Richard Sutton. 

 The baronet rode him for two years, and declared 

 that he had seldom been better carried than in one 

 five-and-thirty minutes' burster. Shortly after this 

 he was given up to Solomon, the whip, and he was 

 eventually killed by Henry Cadney, the boiler, who 

 enjoys a pension for his twenty-nine years 5 Sutton 

 service, and is now on duty at the North Stafford- 

 shire kennels. Joe's other great Cheshire horse, 

 Corporal, was a grey by Irish Starch, and faster than 

 Pevorett. One of his odd tricks was to switch his 

 tail perpetually, and his rider was obliged to hold it 

 with his whip while he listened to his hounds in 

 cover. Racing men will remember that Miss Elis 

 had a trick of this kind when she was running. 

 Coming round the clump in the Goodwood Stakes, 

 some one near Lord George, in the Stand, said 

 " Look ! she's beat ; her tail's going like a pump- 

 handle !" and his Lordship retorted, with his cold 

 smile " Yes, sir ; arid it will pump you dry !" Cor- 

 poral always went along with his tongue hanging 

 out, and as he was a running jumper, he gave his 

 rider a succession of most fearful falls, which would 



