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hunter, Duncan Gray, fell with him over a 

 fence into a lane, doubling his head under 

 him, but got up and came home apparently 

 well, and went out in his turn again a few 

 days afterwards. When fifteen miles from 

 home it was discoyered that he was seriously 

 amiss, and he shortly died. Upon a post 

 mortem examination it was found that he had 

 sustained an injury in the spinal chord. This 

 horse was purchased from Sir W. Wynn, 

 Bart., and had carried Mr. Croome from the 

 time he first commenced the mastership of 

 these hounds. The stables contain twelve 

 hunters, four for the master, and a like num- 

 ber for each of the men. Miracle, a bay 

 horse, has been ridden by Mr. Croome three 

 seasons ; Grimaldi is a grey horse, very per- 

 fect and fast; Wentworth, a fine bay horse, of 

 great power and breeding ; and Little John, 

 a brown horse, under fifteen hands high, is an 

 extraordinary exemplification of the term 

 " long, low, and strong," having to carry 

 fifteen stone, under which no fence is too big 

 or pace too fast for him. Soldier, a bay, 

 was formerly ridden two seasons by Joshua 

 Wheatley, at that time the whipper-in, a very 

 superior artist in the pigskin ; Anchor, a 



