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Dimity, Chorister, Dabchick, Trimbush, Tomboy, Traffic, 

 Reginald, Rubicon, Roundley, Rosy, Commodore, and 

 Clinlver. Trimbush is looking up at Mr. Smith, while 

 Chorister stands under his horse's head, and Rifleman with 

 the huntsman is at his side. In front of the picture are 

 Commodore and Watchman, while Rarity is gambolling 

 towards her master. Under the tree, in the background, sits 

 Remus, a well-known hound. On the left is Tedworth House. 

 The sportsman in the green coat just about to mount his horse 

 in the distance is Mr. Northeast, the agent of the Tedworth 

 estates, famous for his judgment and experience in the breed- 

 ing of Southdown sheep." Speaking of this picture and of 

 the principal figure in it, Mr. Ferneley says in a letter written 

 on the 23rd of October last : " It gives me much pleasure to 

 hear of the publication of a memoir of so excellent a sports- 

 man and so good a man. It is now fifty-three years since I 

 first saw him ; he was riding his horse Jack-o'-Lantern. I 

 saw him near Frisby Gorse, trying to get his horse over a 

 flight of rails six or seven times, but he refused, and Mr. 

 Smith had to take him to another place before he could suc- 

 ceed." Mr. Ferneley adds : " He was the first red-coat I 

 painted, and on Jack-o'-Lantern. The picture was bought by 

 Mr. Valentine Maher, and at his death it was sold, and I do 

 not know what became of it. This was in 1S06, the year Mr. 

 Smith first took the Quorn hounds. I also painted his portrait 

 with his hounds for the Earl of Plymouth. In the same 

 picture were portraits of Lords Plymouth, Aylesford and 

 Dartmouth, Messrs. P. Mills, J. Bradshaw, Paris, J. W. 

 Edge, Hinton, &c. This was in 1819 ; and I fear never again 

 will Leicestershire boast the assembling together of such 

 thorough sportsmen, as well as kind, noble-hearted men." 



Ferneley's unwearying energy and industry and 

 dauntless perseverance continued until the last, 

 though during the two closing years of his life 

 he was a great invalid. To the end he was an 



