io6 Reminiscences of a 



man, a good man to hunt a country ; he was a very good 

 all-round man; we just "fell-out" once, and then had a 

 good clean reckoning up ; it was over a hound, and all 

 about nothing! I stuck up for my rights, and he got out of 

 temper. He says, when in a road, "Jack, that mare will 

 jump this wall." He had no sooner said the words than I 

 was over. When we got into the field there was a hound 

 or two short; one poor beast, that had been tied up all 

 its life and was not accustomed to jumping walls, stood 

 "yelping" near, so he turned round on to me a little bit 

 sharp. I said to him "you suggested that the mare would 

 jump the wall, and I did so in case anything should happen, 

 such as a hare getting up, for instance." When we got 

 home, he said, " Jack (apologising), I was wrong, and I hope 

 you won't think anything more about it." I said, " of course, 

 I knew I was right ! " The fact is the mare was for him 

 to ride, and what he wanted was to see how she shaped 

 herself at a fair stiff jump (it was close on five feet high), 

 and there is no doubt but that he was experimenting on 

 me ; but I was something to take on in those days, as I cared 

 for nothing, and I don't suppose a great quantity of people 

 cared much for me! We had some capital sport with the Vale 

 of White Horse, one run I remember in particular : the Duke 

 of Beaufort had had an extraordinary run on Ash Wednes- 

 day, February 22nd, 1871, when I believe the Badminton 

 hounds met at Swallet's gate, in the Christian Malford 



man to the Vale of White Horse under that good sportsman, Sir W. Throckmorton, Bart. 

 Sir William was an excellent master, and mounted his men so well that at the end of the 

 season of 187i Worrall was able to say, " We had a fine season ; hunted ninety-five days, 

 killedl05 foxes, and I had not a single fall throughout the season." In 1876 Worrall went 

 to the old Berkeley under Mr. Longman for nine seasons ; in 1885 to Sir Richard Sutton 

 (Craven); after two seasons Sir Richard gave up, and Worrall's long service of forty-two 

 years with hounds came to end. He never left a situation without a testimonial from the 

 country, and present from the master— a fine record, and one worthy of imitation by all 

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