lo.^e in ^.luiffl. 



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:, though we ven low- g 



aids to advan: ,. • ..J, owing J 



one of those /<• ments, a gag-rein bridle, _ 



Id be intend Is with. ^ 



ly following, x . U again in the neigh- ^ 



whury, and was • -.d in the pleasure of 



I in the lielJ o covert, as usual, in his 



> -iohn Cope ]■ ' ' "ent 



;! dragsnjau, I ■, , 'ise 



Vein to hia pad, but I was informed he never uses 



't even W'hen he ]iut>> V trigother on the roii."'. 



■unted on hi^ hunter, and iii the midst of his iiounds, 1 3 



!ielp looking at Mr. Ward with admiration — I c' -'" "g 



all. .vith veneration, when I considered that I bad befor< g 



a nasu, ..hose long life has been devoted lo fox-hunting, and whose X 



u 



evi ■■ ^ , ■'<■ ■■ ■• I :, , ■ 3 



kennel, or as the author of some witty saying or some pleasant joke, > 



and as a real sample of old Engbsb blood. He looks in high health *** 



and vigour ; as a proof of which, I was told, that being President of x 



his Club a short time since, and having — to use the words of ^ 



my informant — " screwed up his party almost to the top hole," ^ 



he. pulled a fox's head out of his pocket, and drank a bumper to *► 



Fox-hunting. *3 



I know not what weight Mr. Ward now rides, but I do not ^ 



. . . o 



wonder at his telling a gentleman, who was out with him, that it _3 



loould he the best recipe for his hot horse. He reminded me of a M 



celebrated character among the welter weights in the Forest, who, g 



on bein^' asked what he weighed, replied, that he was " two-and- 



twentv'* ■ ■ ■''■" '"i'lh-bridqc" — r"=; much •'- ^ > -•■■v " i-.m .ir.-.l.^c; g* 



Willhr *^ 



On the day I iiave been last speaking of, we found our lox ui less j- 



than h '" ' ' to' draw. We ran him upwards of ^ 



two he iiting country at first, and at one g 



time at a fair pac :e hope that he was then going to fly , o 



