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a black patch over one eye, as used to live at the 

 * White Hart ' at Andover all the winter, and hunted 

 every day with the Tedworth ; and it were wonderful 

 the long distances he would come to meet the hounds, 

 and I've know'd his being at New Mill — and that 

 must have been twenty mile — and he always rode 

 to cover and back again after hunting; and then, 

 poor man ! he never could ride up to hounds much 

 if they went away, for he were said to be over 

 twenty stone ; but he was very fond of hunting, but 

 he never attended to his condition and put on a 

 deal of flesh. Oh dear, dear ; but he were a very 

 good man, and everybody liked him. And then 

 there were General Shubrick who used to live at 

 the ' Star/ and he were a mighty little man, and he 

 kept fourteen hunters, and as many grooms ; and all he 

 thought about was to see his horses prance about along 

 the roads, and he used to have 'em all out in a string 

 when he didn't hunt, and make the grooms ride 'em 

 about for his amusement ; and besides that, he used to 

 have their pictures taken, and give 'em away to all his 

 friends. And then there were a Mr. Kerrish, a clergy- 

 man, somewhere down in Somersetshire, or Dorsetshire, 

 and he used to come to Whittlebury Forest, when I was 

 with the Duke of Grafton, for a week or so, and he 

 always had three good hunters, and he hunted four 



