CHAPTER XVIII. 



About my Best Hunter, ' The Doctor ' — His Performances on the 

 Flat, and at Steeplechasing — How I got him — Giving 'The 

 Doctor ' some Physic — The Best Horse in Leicestershire — A 

 Fast Gallop from Burdett's Covert — Sir Frederick Johnstone 

 beaten — 'The Doctor's' Admirers — Wins the Jumping Prize at 

 Oakham Show — A Day from Burley-on-the-Hill — Mr. Henry 

 ChapHn gets a Fall — Frank Goodall and ' The Doctor '—An 

 Anecdote about her Majesty the Queen — ' The Doctor's ' Last 

 Run, his Accident, and Death — Piloting the Prince of Wales — 

 Mr. Henry Chaplin as a Master — The Finish. 



T would be impossible for me to 

 write anything about hunting and 

 the pleasures of the chase with 

 the famous Cottesmore and Ouorn, 

 without introducing the name of one 

 of the, if not the, most celebrated 

 cross-country horses and hunters of modern times, 

 viz., 'The Doctor.' This good old servant of mine 

 was as well known in Leicestershire as myself ; in 

 fact, it was quite customary fifteen or sixteen years 

 ago "to couple the two names together — Custance 



