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Burton's) horses, which he had never seen before he got 

 on him at the meet. They were well acquainted before 

 night, for, in the words of Mr. Godfrey Meynell, the horse 

 got an unusually good hustling, and jumped down into a 

 fearful-looking dumble, where no one else followed. And 

 it may have been here that his lordship got his long lead. 

 Not that there was anything uncommon in that, as all his 

 contemporaries will allow. 



The great feature of the sport with the Meynell in his 

 day was the wildness of the foxes and the long points 

 which they used to make. For instance, there was the 

 run just mentioned with at least an eleven-mile point, and 

 three in the same season from Loxley of ten miles and 

 over. These last were probably all with foxes of the same 

 litter. Hounds pulled down the first by themselves, near 

 Dilhorn, the field having been all stopped by the River 

 Churnet, and having to make a wide detour. When they 

 did get up, there was not much left of the fox. 



The following extract from a newspaper is too 

 characteristic to be omitted : — 



NARROW ESCAPE OF LORD BERKELEY PAGET WITH THE 

 CHESHIRE HOUNDS. 



Lord Berkeley Paget, who is hunting with the Cheshire hounds, has had a 

 narrow escape of his life. His lordship was leading the field, when the hounds, 

 pushing the fox, drove him across the river Weaver, which is considerably 

 swollen. Lord B. Paget, without hesitation, plunged into the river and en- 

 deavoured to reach the opposite bank with the hounds. The cun-ent was 

 running too rapidly for this to be effected, and horse and rider were washed 

 down the stream. Lord Berkeley Paget thus became unseated, and a scene of 

 excitement ensued; the huntsmen thronging the bank to assist his lordship, 

 who, after a protracted struggle, effected a landing, though much exhausted in 

 the effort. His hunter was also recovered shortly afterwards. Beyond the 

 unpleasant effects of a prolonged immersion, Lord Berkeley Paget has happily 

 taken no harm from the alarming accident. 



This short notice of one, who has been a leading man 

 over every country that he has ever been in, would be in- 

 complete without the tribute which " H. H." paid to his 

 prowess in his account of the Quorn in 1867. He says — 



I have now, I think, said everything needful as regards the horses and 

 hounds. Of the men who follow them I can say but little, as many have not 



