180 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



In 1806 lie succeeded Lord Foley at Quorn, and for 

 ten years hunted Leicestersliire with first-rate hounds, 

 for a portion of which he had paid to Mr. Musters 1000 

 guineas, until, in 1816, he took the place of Mr. Osbaldis- 

 ton in Lincolnshire, where he hunted the Burton country 

 for eight years. He then, ceasing for two years to be 

 a master of hounds, hunted with the Duke of Eutland 

 and in the neighbouring counties until 1826, when, taking 

 up his residence at Penton Lodge, he created for himself 

 a new country between Andover and Salisbury. In 1830 

 — two years after the death of his father, from whom he 

 inherited a very large fortune — he removed to Tedworth, 

 which he had lately rebuilt with magnificent kennels, and 

 stables in which every hunter had a loose box. In these 

 stables he had often as many as fifty horses, all in first- 

 rate condition. For thirty-two years he hunted the Ted- 

 worth country without ever asking for subscriptions of 

 any sort or kind. All he begged of the landowners and 

 of those who hunted with him was to preserve foxes to 

 enable him to kill them. At his meets his friend and 

 guest the late Duke of Wellington often attended. In 

 stature Mr. Smith was about 5 feet 10 inches high, athletic, 

 well-proportioned, muscular, but slight. His weight was 

 between eleven and twelve stone. With a highly -intelligent 

 but resolute countenance, containing (as was observed of 

 it) '' a dash of the bulldog," he had plain features. 



