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against the other, generally alongside of the leading 

 hounds, and jumping the biggest places they could 

 find'. I was riding ' Comet,' a horse of Lord 

 Wilton's, and laughed heartily at poor Mr. Behrens' 

 face as he saw ' The Clown ' leaping such fences as 

 he had never been asked to before. I saw Captain 

 Trotter myself jump an ox-fence into a field, and a 

 double "oxer" out, after breaking the second rail. 

 Then he jumped in by the side of a haystack, and 

 there was no way out but over a large bullock- 

 hurdle, which he crashed through, there being no 

 room to get a run to jump it. 



It was my custom to go to Newport Lodge, Mr. 

 Behrens' hunting-box at Melton Mowbray, for a great 

 many years to ride in his trials just before Lough- 

 borough and Melton Steeplechases, and very few 

 mistakes we made round that little course — it is the 

 same that ' Father O'Flynn ' was trained over before 

 he won the Liverpool Grand National in 1892. Mr. 

 Behrens used to mount me out hunting afterwards. 

 I used to go there on Sunday afternoon and stay the 

 night. After dinner we always used to go into the 

 billiard-room, and as regularly as possible Captain 

 Smith leading up to this conversation in some 

 way, I would ask Mr. Julius if he recollected the 

 good gallop we had from Billesdon Coplow to Glenn 



