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giving Farmer Jack a quarter of an hour's law before 

 throwing off ; and of his recognizing Concord's voice when 

 that hound gave tongue in a small gorse, after Lord 

 Sefton had taken over the hounds. These are the only 

 anecdotes which have been preserved of a man about 

 whom there must have been a hundred better ones to tell. 

 He was the first to establish order and discipline in the 

 hunting-field, though before his day it is doubtful if any 

 was necessary. 



" Ere Bluecap and Wanton taught foxhounds to scurry, 

 With music in plenty, oh, where was the hurry?" 



There was probably not much emulation in riding in 

 the times " when each nag wore a crupper, each squire 

 a pigtail," and rode his snaffle-bridled horse over timber 

 at a stand, or led over, as the case might be, and a 

 neighbouring squire, the parson, the doctor, and a farmer 

 or two watched with intelligent interest the doinojs of 



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" Invincible Tom and invincible Towler, 

 Invincible Jack and invincible Jowler," 



as they went towling along, never off the line of their fox, 

 throwing their tongues like very bloodhounds, and, in 

 all probability, killing him in the end if he kept above 

 ground and daylight lasted. Very good fun it must 

 have been, too, but Mr. Childe, above mentioned. Lords 

 Villiers, Forester, Cholmondeley, Foley, Sir Henry Peyton, 

 Sir Stephen Glynne, Messrs. Loraine Smith, Ealph Lamb- 

 ton, John Lockley, George Germaine, John Hawkes, and 

 the like, altered all that, and laid a burden grievous to be 

 borne on the shoulders of M.F.H.'s yet to be. They, in 

 their turn, might take a lesson from the Arch-Master of 

 their craft, who kept his field in order more by his good- 

 humoured pleasantry than by the assumption or exercise 

 of any authority over others. When two young and 

 dashing riders had headed the hounds, he remarked, " The 

 hounds were following the gentlemen, who had very 

 kindly gone forward to see what the fox was about." Or 



