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horseman at eighteen, had previously kept a pack of 

 harriers on the Yorkshire Wolds, and one of his first 

 moves was to challenge Sir Mark Sykes, to run a 

 couple of them four miles against a like number of his 

 foxhounds. Tom Sebright, and the late Tom Carter 

 rode the good old-fashioned drag, a small wisp of 

 straw in which a fox had lain overnight ; but the fox- 

 hounds went right away from their presumptuous 

 rivals. This little mishap rather sickened him of the 

 Holderness country, of whose Beverley Club, Colonel 

 Mellish, Mr. Gascoyne, Mr. Martin Hawke, and him- 

 self were the members, and he sought for rather a 

 wider field of distinction. His greatest Lincolnshire 

 day was when he met at Glentworth, ran his fox ten 

 miles straight, and lost him within two or three fields 

 of Gainsborough. Not contented with this, they found 

 again instantly at Lea Wood, and streamed away across 

 the flat to Ingleby Wood, leaving Carlton on the left, 

 and on past Dunham Corner, and Riseholme, where the 

 hounds were observed by a Lincoln butcher, who suc- 

 ceeded in coaxing them on to the road, casting them- 

 selves near Greetwell turf-pits. From Glentworth to 

 that point was about twenty-five miles straight, and 

 the kennel huntsman happening to hear from some- 

 one on the road that there was not one scarlet with 

 them, sallied forth post-haste on his pony and brought 

 them back to Burton. Mr. Osbaldeston got further 

 than any of the field on his old Scrivington horse, 

 who was, however, hardly so good as " the little 

 mare," whom he bought from Colonel Elmhurst, on 

 condition that she was to be returned when worn out. 

 She was only fifteen-one, and rather warm in her 

 temper. " The Squire" first fell in love with her, and 

 determined to have her at any price, from seeing Tom 

 Sebright (who was riding her for the Colonel, to make 

 her a little more temperate) take a five-feet-six stone 

 wall out of Norton deer park, near Spital, when the 

 hounds were running. The grave where Tally-ho 



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