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ENTERED IN 1895— continued. 



The numerals against hounds' names represent the prize winners. 

 Dogs, 8 couples; bitches, 7 couples. Total, 15 couples. 



In 1895, Mr. Charles Garnett, who had been second 

 whipper-in to Mr. Herbert Peel's hounds at Calveley, in 

 Cheshire, in 1891-1892, and first whipper-in, 1892-1893, 

 came to stay with Mr. Hartley at the Rookery, Rocester. 

 He won the Harrington Cup on Mrs. Hartley's Leotard in 

 1896, and the Light-weight race at Sir Peter Walker's 

 Point-to-Point steeplechases at Ednaston, in 1898, on 

 Joan. He has won races all over the country since then, 

 but these were his earliest successes, and the ones more 

 particularly connected with the Meynell. In 1897-1898 

 he went to whip-in to Mr. Charles Paget at his old 

 quarters at Calveley, and carried the horn one day in the 

 Master's absence, killing a brace of foxes. At the end of 

 the season he came back to the Meynell country as agent 

 and secretary to Mr. Walter Boden, but can still find time 

 to ride a race or furnish neck and spurs if any one has a 

 young one or something with a temper which wants 

 riding. 



Mr. Hartley, with whom he stayed when he first came 

 to the country, used to be the best welter weight in the 

 Albrighton country, when he rode only seventeen stone. 

 He has often given a good account of himself since then 

 on very moderate horses. When he rode a good nineteen 

 stone, a lady once said seriously that he rode nearly a ton, 

 and the statement was accepted, till at last some one said, 

 *' Why, a fat bullock does not weigh that, and surely no 



