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Lord Darlington is assisted in the field by three men — namely, 

 two whippers-in, and the man who rides his Lordship's second 

 horse. Their Christian names are Dick, Will, and George ; but I 

 can give the surname of Will only, having known him as Will 

 Price when he lived with Colonel Berkeley. The last time I saw 

 him previous to meeting him in Yorkshire was on the top of a 

 Cheltenham coach, on his road to London — having left Colonel 

 Berkeley's service — to hire himself to Lord Charles Somerset, to 

 take some hounds to the Cape of Good Hope. Will, however, 

 thought better of going among the black boors of that settlement, 

 and went to whip in to Mr. Musters. From Mr. Musters he 

 succeeded to his present place ; and I consider him a very able man 

 in the field. 



Here Will furnishes me with an anecdote which must not be lost. 

 Previous to his going to Mr. Musters, Will Price was supposed to 

 be a single man, but whilst in Northamptonshire he had an 

 increase to his establishment. This gave rise to the report of his 

 being married ; and when his old master the Colonel stumbled upon 

 him, a word or two was exchanged on the subject. " So, Will," 

 said Colonel B., "you are married I find? I should have thought 

 you might have done without a wife." — " Lord bless you. Colonel," 

 replied Will, " I am not married— she's only a woman I've got for 

 the season." 



Saturday the 18th. — The fixture was at Newton House. I was 

 housed there the night before, and Sir Bellingham Graham and his 

 two sons came this day to breakfast, my friend Godfrey on his 

 celebrated pony Barefoot — so named from his likeness to the no 

 less celebrated race-horse of that name — looking determined to go ; 

 and in truth this young Nimrod is very hard to beat. We had two 

 very handsome finds from Lady Darlington's preserves, and one of 

 the two foxes gave us a beautiful gallop of twenty-seven minutes, 

 and a kill; we also killed the second. We had then a pretty two - 

 and-twenty minutes in the evening, from Askew Moor, but whipped 

 off as our fox crossed a river, and it was late. Lady Augusta 

 Milbanke and Lady Arabella Vane (his Lordship's eldest and 

 youngest daughters) were out, and a very numerous field of 

 sportsmen besides. 



