.314 The Post and the Paddock. 



and finding that the chestnut mare was catching him 

 for speed, he dashed up a green lane, and jumped five 

 gates along it in succession. " 'Drat you, Joe ! you 

 thought to shake me off, did you ?" roared Mr. Tolle- 

 mache, as they landed almost together in a large 

 grass field, in the middle of which the hounds had 

 earthed their fox ; and, " Well, sir, I did ; but I'll 

 have no more gates," was the rejoinder, as they 

 trotted up to the hounds, and decided that it was to 

 be a drawn match. Pevorett's day was over ,when 

 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 Barley'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 Pevorett 

 was given to Joe after having been bought in for 

 35% 3?o^> and 5oo/., in succession, when Sir Harry 

 Mainwaring, Mr. Jeffery 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 Solo- 

 mon, the whip, and he was eventually killed by Henry 

 Cadney, the boiler, who enjoys a pension for his 

 twenty-nine years' Sutton service, and is now on duty 

 at the^North Staffordshire 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 



