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that had knocked him down as it was struggling on to its 

 legs again. At last he asked Mr. Frank Ep worth who 

 it was on the grey horse who had knocked him down, as 

 he had seen him fall ; and, on the matter being explained, 

 set about to apologize to every man he saw on a grey 

 horse, for fear he had accused him of jumping on him. 

 He was particularly profuse in his apologies to Mr. 

 Garniss, of Great Coates, whom he suspected most. 



Good Men and True. 



Other good men in the fifties and sixties were Messrs. 

 G. Skipworth, of Thorganby Hall, and J. King, of North 

 Ormsby, who went extremely well on moderate horses — 

 the latter dressed entirely in black, with a wide flat 

 brimmed silk hat, and had a very clerical appearance. 

 The writer can remember seeing; him out some eioht or 

 nine years ago, riding a thoroughbred three-year-old, and 

 he in(|uired at the time "who the venerable sporting- 

 parson was ? " Mt. G. Towler, of Swinhope, was a great 

 bruiser, though not a particularly good horseman, and he 

 always rode good cattle. Mr. Theophilus Harneise was 

 also a hard man to hounds and a most excellent sports- 

 man. Ever cheery, he never minded a toss, and many a 

 time, when onlookers expected that he had taken a 

 " crumpler " of no ordinary degree, they would find him 

 sitting up and roaring with laughter at what he must 

 have considered a great joke. 



Mr. Harneise, the last of the old school of good sports- 

 men, died at Hawerby in 1901. 



