LIFE OF MYTTON. 175 



indicated two things — first, that he considered the 

 ience something like a stopper ; and, secondly, that 

 he was determined not to be beaten by any man in 

 the field so long as his mare could keep on her legs. 

 But the drop, or the crowd in getting at it, proved 

 too much for her, and she gave him a severe fall, — 

 in addition to his being much hurt by another per- 

 son's horse, that had followed him, coming upon him 

 and crushing him ; there being a dozen or so down 

 together. 



The place, in fact, was a regular " Squire trap," 

 and although Mytton quickly remounted and went 

 on — bleeding and bare-headed, for his hat was too 

 much crushed to be worth picking up, the horse in 

 his wake having alighted on it — he was so much 

 shaken by the fall as to be unable again to take 

 his usual place, and he did little more than follow 

 a leader during the remainder of the day. They 

 had, however, two pretty things, a second fox being 

 found in Lord Combermere's park, but the hounds 

 were stopped after running for about twenty minutes, 

 as this proved to be a vixen ; and a third fox was 

 chopped in cover. The Shropshire, with Chanter 

 and Orator, claimed to have the best of the "hunt- 

 ing ; " but Will Head, for the Cheshire, was always 



