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said to C. Newdegate, " I hear that you have got a 

 young man here who can sit still and see the hounds 

 hunt." I was trotting in front of him, turned " Cru- 

 sader" on to the footpath and jumped a high rail 

 into the field " And not afraid to get after them," he 

 added. When I had killed the fox he came and con- 

 gratulated me, and said, " Good-bye ". On going 

 to the next covert I was on " Landseer," trotting 

 along the side of a brook, when the stupid beast 

 turned round and jumped at it. It was a very wide 

 place, so we plopped in, and I had to leave him there 

 to be pulled out with ropes. I got on " Crusader " 

 again, and finished the day. Jim Montgomery and 

 Wolfe- Murray were out from Leamington. Jim lost 

 his hat, and when asked where it was pointed over 

 his shoulder, saying, "In yon spinney " about two 

 miles off. 



Atherstone, 1847. I went to Birmingham with 

 Lady Charlotte Chetwynd to a concert to hear 

 Jenny Lind. I left Birmingham by an early train 

 next morning. At the railway station I met a gentle- 

 man who had sat on a chair all night, as there was 

 not a bed to be got in the place. When we arrived 

 at Wilnecote, where I had left my cart, which I 

 bought from Peter Colvile (it had his name painted 

 on it), he said he wanted to go to Merrivale, so I 

 offered to give him a lift. When we got to Mr. 

 Laking's at Hall End a foxhound puppy ran out and 

 followed the cart. I turned round and whipped at it 

 to make it go away. A man on the road kept point- 

 ing forward and gesticulating, and I kept looking at 



