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they didn't. I got as savage as blazes, and I told him, 

 before all the gentlemen, that if I didn't know his 

 horse would kill some one, I'd get off and turn him 

 loose, and that I'd never ride another horse for him 

 as long as I lived. He asked the groom, when he 

 got to his stable, if I'd left any message ; and he says 

 " Yes, sir ; he tells me he won't ride another horse for 

 you/' " The deuce he did !" I kept my word for 

 a twelvemonth, and then we made it up : he was 

 always very kind to me but that time. A man can't 

 be put on when he's gone every yard with hounds. 



It would be in '41 when I left Melton. I lived at 

 Lord Scarboro's, in the house at Eufford, every year 

 from October to May, for fifteen years : I was 

 to have gone again this year, but Lord Scarboro 5 

 died. It's been hard lines with me since that. I 

 broke all his young horses for my Lord ; they would 

 have cantered the figure of 8 in this room. He was 

 a very particular man, was Lord Scarboro', with his 

 horses ; if he ever saw a horse walking with the 

 wrong leg first, he'd always call to the groom to 

 make him change. I had a mint of troubles there. 

 Captain Williams and I jumped a lock ; it looked as 

 deep as a coal-pit. " Dick," says he, when we killed, 

 "what did you think of that lock jump?" "I 

 thought nothing of it, sir," I said. " Well, I did, 

 Dick, for I shut my eyes going over." He enjoyed 

 that, did the Captain : he was only on a four-year-old 

 mare : she's gone to Voltigeur this spring. 



Talk of tumbles ! I have had eleven in one day 

 down there, when I was above seventy : I'll never 

 see seventy-eight again, but I can take a good allow- 

 ance of them still. It was a horse of Mr. Foljambe's 

 that gave me those eleven, but he never hurt me. 

 He gave 250 guineas to Sir Tatton for him before he 

 was broke. My foot got twisted in the stirrup over 

 his neck at one jump, and away he went with me 

 right down a long stubble before I could get righted. 



