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handed down to generations to come as the most 

 finished rider of his day ; though the past season only 

 saw him out once, and it was even feared at one time 

 that he would hunt no more. Lord G-rey de Wilton 

 though is never likely to let the family name lose its 

 celebrity, for he will not be beat in the field. The fence 

 is never too big or the pace too quick for him ; he never 

 takes his eye off the hounds when they are running, or 

 at a momentary difficulty, and is invariably close at 

 them; and riding vigorously at all his fences, is down 

 but seldom. To go straight down to a rasper, without 

 turning a yard right or left, no man that ever crossed 

 Leicestershire can surpass Sir Frederick Johnstone; 

 and no matter how wide the brook or strong the oxer, 

 he will not be separated from the hounds. Nor has he 

 only the merit of being hard, for besides being a fine 

 horseman, he is as quick away as a rabbit ; and should 

 hounds slip suddenly ofi*, he is almost certain to get 

 away on the best of terms wdth them, though he may 

 have been unnoticeable before. Mr. Eorster, too, who 

 so astonished the natives during his first season in these 

 parts (the one before last, 1869 — 70) by the way he 

 used to ride at big timber, still keeps up his character ; 

 and of late, has built his reputation chiefly on his talent 

 for negotiating the almost impracticable " bottoms " 

 with which the country abounds. * * * 



Now we come to one who has made a wider name for 

 himself than the world of Leicestershire has given him, 

 and who, when well mounted, and in the full glory of a 

 stiff country, should be seen to be appreciated, viz., 

 Captain Smith, of steeplechase renown. * * -x- 

 Lord Calthorpe was going as straight as anyone last 

 season ; Colonel Forester seems to have lost neither 

 nerve nor keenness ; and Mr. Little Gilmour enjoys his 

 hunting as much, and forms as leading and pleasant a 



