100 REMINISCENCES OF A HUNTSMAN 



to Harrold and put the bootmaker's horse in my stable at the 

 price his master had set on him, thirty guineas or pounds, I 

 forget which. The fact was, as there were a vast number of 

 horses stopped that day, I feared other people might be in want 

 of a horse and, aware of my recommendation, buy him. This 

 horse was afterwards ridden by Tom Skinner, and then by George 

 Carter, and his condition improved and his fencing perfected, 

 though the latter was perfect indeed when I bought him, and 

 Ready then came into my stable as handsome and as good a 

 horse as ever huntsman rode. When the sorrowful day had 

 arrived and passed, the parting between me and my hounds, I 

 sold Ready to Lord Fitzhardinge for three hundred guineas. 



