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good sportsmen — JoHn Wing and Joe Ward, 

 of Sedgebrook, were both light men, the former 

 a neat, corky rider, took all the beating 

 the best conld give him, and was brother to 

 Doctor Wing, of Melton, whose game cocks 

 were known far and wide when cock fighting 

 was in its zenith. Mr. Hutchinson, of Foston, 

 Mr. Bland, of Flawboro', and the Bemroses, of 

 Caythorpe, were all good men to hounds. 

 Mr. Edward Burbidge, of Thorpe Arnold, and 

 his brother were both devoted to hunting, 

 the former being one of the best men on 

 the Melton side for many years. There was, 

 however, a wonderfully clever farmer over a 

 country, living at Wyville, Harry Sampey, 

 who, in the schooling of a young one or 

 treatment of a wayward beast, had few equals. 

 He frequently bought horses of the latter 

 class at a small figure, who had not been 

 brought up in the way they should go, for 

 some of them would exhibit hostility towards 

 any quarter the rider might desire, whilst 

 others would decline to move at all. Such 

 as these were soon brought into submission, 

 for they couldn't get rid of him, and he was 

 very patient and seldom had recourse to 

 punishment, so that a few months in his 



