CHAPTER XVII. 



Some Good Hunters I have ridden — Colonel Forester and General 

 Burnaby — A Near Thing at Whissendine Station — The Great 

 Waterloo Run with the Pytchley — Colonel Anstruther Thomson 

 — A Good Run with the Duke of Beaufort's. 



]MONGST the many good hunters 

 I have ridden in my time — and 

 they are not a few — I must not 

 forget to mention ' Patience,' a 

 beautiful black- brown horse be- 

 longing to Colonel Forester. I 

 rode him seven or eight years in succession at Kirby 

 Gate, the opening meet of the Ouorn, which is always 

 the first Monday in November. The Colonel was 

 generally away at Lincoln or Liverpool, and used to 

 send me two horses out on that day. I rode 'Patience' 

 first horse whenever I could, and always wrote to 

 the Colonel to report the sport of the day, and also 

 as to how the animals carried me, as he was anxious 

 to know about them before he came down for regular 



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