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1874, and on ' New Glasgow ' at Liverpool in 1880. 

 Captain Smith lives and hunts in Sussex now, and 

 has done so for the last five or six seasons. This 

 must be vastly different to what he had been 

 used to for five-and-twenty years at Melton Mow- 

 bray. 



Mr, Tailby is one of the hardiest men I ever 

 met. He has been hunting regularly the last 

 fifty years in Leicestershire, and was Master of the 

 Hounds over twenty. During his career he has 

 had more bad falls than any man I know of, and it 

 seems the more he has, the less he cares for 

 them. I think he goes as hard as ever. He is a 

 very short man, and always rides big horses, animals 

 up to at least 2 st. more than his weight. However, 

 he had two extraordinary little animals. They were 

 the only two small ones he ever rode, one being a 

 little mare called ' Rosie,' only just over 15 hands, and 

 the other was a bay horse named ' Hobgoblin,' by 

 'Old Phantom,' that he bred. The latter was a 

 wonderful animal, scarcely 15.2, and I recollect Jem 

 Bailey, the whip, riding him for six or seven seasons. 

 One day they had a wonderfully good run on their 

 Monday side — they ran right into the Pytchley 

 country beyond Rugby. Mr. Tailby's horse was dead 

 beaten when he caught sight of Bailey, who was riding 



