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their glory. The latter was a good-looking- 

 horse, and said to be Peter's superior when he 

 would go, which was not very often. He had 

 not his name for nothing, and it was told how 

 Walker was never backward in offering to 

 mount a friend, the unsuspecting victim being 

 now and again deposited on his back before he 

 got out of the stable yard. 



On Wednesday, the 14th March, in the 

 same year, there was a meet at Croxton Park, 

 at which, amongst the notabilites who joined 

 the Duke, were Earl Granville, Sir Francis 

 Grant, Major Whyte Melville, Col. and Miss 

 Markham, Lord Dupplin, Capt. Turner Farley, 

 Mr. H. Behrens. They went to Newman's 

 Gorse, but there were vixens in the neighbour- 

 hood and not much sport. 



Sometime about the commencement of the 

 regular season of the same year, I think it 

 was, Mr. Micklethwaite, a gentleman who had 

 been in the navy, took up his quarters at 

 Grantham. He was a wonderfully hard man 

 and never missed a day's hunting — rain, hail, 

 blow, or snow — no matter what as long as 

 frost kept off". Mr. Micklethwaite rode fast at 



