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voice were quite unequalled, and he was the best 

 horn-blower I ever listened to. At all times most 

 particular about tail hounds being cut off in chase, 

 it was woe betide the young gentleman whom he 

 saw slip through a gate without first giving the 

 chance to a hound or two who might perhaps 

 have had a bad start. Prominent among the 

 forward riders of the sixties were Colonel Kings- 

 cote (now Sir Nigel), Colonel Miles, and Bob 

 Chapman, the noted horsedealer from Chelten- 

 ham, whom no one could beat over the walls. 

 Colonel Miles had been in the 17th Lancers, and 

 was generally known as Peter Miles. Always a 

 welter-weight, he had as a young man made a 

 reputation in Leicestershire, where he attracted 

 the admiration of Sir Richard Sutton, Master of 

 the Quorn from 1846 to 1855. Mr. Bromley 

 Davenport, M.P., illustrates that charming book 

 entitled Sport with various sketches of his model 

 champion negotiating oxers and sailing over 

 ridge and furrow. At another period he also 

 immortalised Peter Miles in verse, rather at the 

 expense of the author's old friend, Mr. W. L. 

 Gilmour, once a celebrated Meltonian, but a 

 little going off at the time of Colonel Miles's 

 advent. 



'' Wait till the second horseman pass, t.^ 



You'll see a form, 'tis his, alas! "^ 



