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very thick about the legs and thighs. I don't think 

 he could have ridden much less than 14 st. 7 lb. He 

 was a very old servant at Milton, having been there 

 from a boy, and was whip to Tom Sebright over 

 twenty years. 1 was out with the latter the very 

 last time he hunted hounds, which was about six 

 weeks before his death. We were cub- hunting at 

 Castor Hauglands, and he complained of cold and 

 shivers, went home, was taken ill, and never got up 

 again, so he may be said to have died in harness at 

 a good old age. 



In the days I am writing about there were some 

 real good men to hounds, and thorough sportsmen as 

 well, in the Fitzwilliam Hunt, amongst whom I must 

 mention Alec Goodman and Frank Gordon, two of 

 the finest horsemen I ever saw over any country. I 

 have seen both of them many times over Leicester- 

 shire, and they never were to be beaten. I hardly 

 know to which to give the preference, but I have 

 heard both of them speak in the highest terms of 

 each other, and as they are still living, I do not think 

 it would be fair to ask me to act as umpire on such 

 a delicate point. There were several others, but I 

 must mention my old friend Frank Lotan, who rode 

 'Cooksborough' in the Grand National Hunt Steeple- 

 chase of 1 864, and was disqualified after winning (over 



