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may be quoted as the English version of the entertainment and 

 accommodation thus held out to travellers : — 



In this house a man may find 

 All things suited to his mind : 

 Good wine — fish and flesh in courses, 

 Coaches, chaises, harness, horses. 



Tuesday, November 21st, met the York and Ainsty at Pilmor, ten 

 miles from Norton Conyers, a common situated between two very 

 large coverts — a wild fox-hunting place, but not a November fixture. 

 In the spring it must often afford runs. On this day our hounds 

 divided and made bad work of it. I got off with the smaller lot ; 

 but seeing that nothing could be done, and that the fox was making 

 back for the coverts, I trotted gently on the line. We again found, 

 and had a hunting run through a horrible country composed of 

 fields about two acres each, enclosed with strong black-thorn fences 

 — nice chances for horses' legs ! Fortunately for my horse he cast 

 a shoe, and I went home ; but rather a singular adventure occurred. 

 I had ridden about two miles in quest of a blacksmith, when I met a 

 person on foot (Mr. Dale of Creakhill). "I think I have got your 

 shoe in my pocket," said he. " Did you not ride over the rails out 

 of Pilmor with Mr. George Swann?" On telling him I did, he 

 informed me my horse pulled off his shoe when he landed on the 

 other side. Had it not come off a fall would have been the result. 



On this day several Officers of the Fifth Dragoon Guards 

 (quartered at York) were in the field. Their commanding officer. 

 Colonel Wallace, a very hard rider, was at this time laid up from 

 the eifects of a bad fall with Lord Darlington's hounds, which had 

 nearly cost him his life. His foot became fast in his stirrup, and he 

 received several severe kicks from his horse before he could 

 disengage himself from his perilous situation. One of his Captains, 



the Hon Kennedy, brother to the very sporting Nobleman 



of that name, is also a bruising rider, and I had seen him and one 

 of the Subalterns (Mr. Brimer) on a visit to Sir Bellingham. 

 Mr. Brimer gave upwards of four hundred guineas for two of 

 Mr. Petre's hunters at his sale, when he gave up the Badsworth 

 hounds. Mr. Goodlake, another Sub of this regiment, and eldest 

 son of the Champion of the Long-tails of that name, was also out 



