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gallop from Wardley Wood. Although the mare was 

 an unruly beast, he managed to see the run, and left 

 for Manton Station to catch the train for Leicester, 

 after about as hard a day as anyone could wish for. 

 The mare never left off pulling or raking about all the 

 day. I saw him about a fortnight afterwards, and 

 he told me that he went straight to the butcher that 

 night and gave him ^40 for her. After riding her 

 a few times she became fairly quiet, and he finished 

 the season on her. Next summer he rode her hack- 

 ing, and made a lot of money out of her afterwards. 

 This is an example of what pluck and patience 

 will do. 



Another very amusing story can be told about 

 Captain Trotter, but this time it happened with the 

 Ouorn. We found a fox late in the afternoon at 

 Billesdon Coplow. The Captain was riding a hire- 

 ling from Toynbee at Leicester, and, as usual, 

 wanted, and meant to have, his three guineas' worth 

 out of him. As we, however, were all on our 

 second horses, it rather handicapped him. We ran 

 by Houghton-on-the-Hill to ground close to Glenn 

 Station — a very fine run indeed. Just before we 

 got to Houghton a funny thing happened. Mr. 

 Julius Behrens' horse blundered on landing over a 

 fence, and fell on his nose and knees. On recover- 



