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appeared ! The Hon. George Lambton was out this day, 

 coming from Windlestone with Sir William, and Mr. Ord 

 had given a mount on a four-year-old to a friend of his, Mr. 

 Beaumont Beadon, from the Devonshire Stag-hounds' 

 country. Not being accustomed to jump much, he told me, 

 with the stag, he took the opportunity of getting all he 

 could, and tried the young horse highly over a gate at 

 Richardson's whin. Mr. Lambton and I were standing close 

 by, and when he hit it hard all round, without however 

 coming down, Mr. Lambton said, " By God ! I wouldn't have 

 charged that gate on that horse for £1,000." The horse 

 had never been out hunting before, and never appeared again 

 in the hunting field, being sold at York for a pretty good 

 price, and about double his value. A rare thing at the 

 auction there ! We had something like twenty minutes from 

 Jordison's Moors at a fast pace before the Elwick Hall run, 

 and met, I believe, at Wolviston that day. 



On the following day we were at Redmarshall, and in a 

 splendid gallop fairly "dusted up" the Hurworth country, 

 running to Captain Temple's place, Saltergill, near Yarm ; 

 forty-five minutes without a check. A fine old English 

 gentleman was Captain Edward Temple of Saltergill, Yarm ; 

 who hunted with us a bit about this time, chiefly on Fridays. 

 A really neat horseman with good hands and a nice seat, 

 and as a rule well mounted on a nearly thoroughbred thirteen 

 stone hunter. A good judge of a horse, and an authority on 

 the bitting of horses. He also had a clean thoroughbred or 

 two. I remember him winning a few races, especially with 

 a good mare called " Mount Grace." I hear that the old 

 gentleman lost his eyesight, and is now no longer alive. The 

 more's the pity, for he was one of nature's gentlemen, and 

 of a sort not to be parted with ! 



