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At the time I am writing about Mr. Tailby was 

 in his zenith. As some of my readers may not know 

 what Mr. Tailby's country consisted of, I will try to 

 explain. The Earl of Stamford, having taken the 

 Quorn Hounds, hunting himself from Bradgate, did 

 not care to carry it on to the great extent it had 

 been carried on formerly, and was willing to give 

 up the country from Tilton to Allexton. Sir John 

 Trollope — afterwards Lord Kesteven, and father of 

 the present peer — was living at Casewick, and did 

 not care for the country north of the Melton and 

 Uppingham road. It was too far from him, and Mr. 

 Tailby agreed to hunt the two parts at a certain 

 subscription. It consisted of the two ends of the 

 original Quorn and Cottesmore countries, where they 

 joined each other. 



Jack Goddard was huntsman to Mr. Tailby in 

 Leicestershire in 1859, and many a good run and a 

 good joke have I had with him. He was a very 

 fine horseman indeed, and rode several steeplechases 

 with great success whilst he was first whip to Jem 

 Hill with the Heythrop. He won twice or three 

 times on that good horse 'Ploughboy,' and I 

 have heard Tom Golby — and there was no better 

 judge — say Jack was as fine a horseman as he ever 

 saw. Curiously enough, my old friend Fordham 



