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as I can personally testify. His fine horse- 

 manship enabled him always to be in his 

 place, and it is impossible to conceive any- 

 thing more perfect in its way than the artis- 

 tic method which Jem Hills practised of 

 lifting his hounds when the fleeting scent, 

 so prevalent on the Cotswold Hills, would 

 not afford them the opportunity of hunting 

 up to their fox. The quiet alacrity Jack 

 adopted of " putting them on " to their 

 huntsman was an example for whippers-in 

 to imitate. To see a man follow and rate 

 hounds instead of getting to the head, when 

 he wants to stop them from riot, or a fresh 

 fox, which I have occasionally seen done by 

 muffs wanting in tact and experience, is an 

 abomination not to be endured — enough to 

 awaken from their peaceful slumbers the 

 ashes of Mr. Assheton Smith. Leaving the 

 Heythrop, Goddard tried his hand as land- 

 lord of the White Hart, Chipping-Norton, 

 where he had lots of kind patrons; but 

 drawino- coverts was more to his taste 

 than drawing corks — so, after a very short 

 probation, he travelled northwards to whip 

 in to the Holderness, and afterwards to 

 Lord Henry Bentinck's hounds. A horn 



