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still seems " outward bound," two or three months 

 will no doubt see him walking better than he has 

 ever done since his accident ; and he showed on his 

 Seighford day (Jan 19th) how he can still ride to 

 hounds. The foot is fastened to the stirrup by a little 

 bit of elastic, which would snap if there was any fall, 

 and to see him on horseback, it is impossible to detect, 

 except from a slight tendency to lean to the off side, 

 that he has a false leg at all. 



But we must not forget the other great coevals of 

 Pevorett and his game rider Lord Delamere on his 

 chesnut Wynn^tay, Sir Richard Brooke on his Irish 

 rat-tailed mare, whom Tom Hewitt, of Liverpool, 

 brought over from Mullingar fair ; Mr. Leycester, of 

 Toft, on his Astbury horse ; Mr. Rowland Warburton 

 on his fifteen-hand thorough-breds ; Captain France 

 on his steeple-chase mare Brenda ; and Mr. Gleig, as 

 patient and as certain to be thereabouts at a finish 

 as Sam Chifney, on his Kangaroo. This rare animal 

 was fully sixteen hands, with an eye and ear as good 

 as its Australian namesake, and is now, we believe, 

 grazing, after his triumphs, in the park at Trentham. 

 In later times no better pair crossed Cheshire than 

 Mr. John White on his Merry Lad. Although he 

 was upwards of sixteen-one, he had action like a 

 pony, and at timber there was nothing to touch him. 

 He was hired at first from Mr. Tilbury, who furnished 

 fifteen to twenty hordes for the season when Mr. 

 White took the Cheshire country, and was after- 

 wards purchased for 200 guineas. 



The Cheshire Pack is generally supposed to have 

 been established about two hundred years ago, and 

 nearly all the first hounds were red tan, a colour 

 which is still often to be found in the kennel ; while 

 the blue pie, which waa first) introduced by the Duke 

 of Rutland's Saladin, appears at intervals by breed- 

 ing. The name of this hound was nearly as dear to 

 the Cheshire huntsmen as Ranger, one of Earl Fitz- 



