THE WILLEY WHIPPER-IN". 137 



Moody, tlie well-known wliipper-in to G. Forester, 

 Esq.'s fox-hounds for twenty years. He was carried 

 to the grave by a proper number of earth-stoppers, 

 and attended by many other sporting friends, who 

 heartily mourned for him/ 



" Directly after the corpse followed his old 

 favourite horse (which he always called his 'Old 

 Soul'), thus accoutred: carrying his last fox's 

 brush in the front of his bridle, with his cap, whip, 

 boots, spurs, and girdle, across his saddle. The 

 ceremony being over, he (by his own desire), had 

 three clear rattling view haloos o'er his grave ; and 

 thus ended the career of poor Tom, who lived and 

 died an honest fellow, but alas ! a very wet one. 



" I hope you and your family are well, and you'll 

 believe me, much yours, 



" Gr. Forester. 



"WiLLEY, Dec. 5, 1796." 



"We need add nothing to the description the 

 Squire gave of the way in which Tom's last wishes 

 were carried out, and shall merely remark that 

 the old fellow kept on his livery to the last, and 

 that he died in his boots, which were for some time 

 kept as relics — a circumstance which leads us to 



