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but a S7nart master can enforce ; and though their 

 boots, breeches, coats, bridles, saddles, and general 

 equipments are such as do credit to his lordship's 

 tradesmen, and fit as well as the neatest Meltonians, 

 no one can mistake their being servants. Each has 

 two horses out each day, and their mounts are as 

 good as money can procure, for his lordship never 

 buys what is usually called " servant's horses," but 

 gets for his men animals that will leave them no ex- 

 cuse for not doing their business properly. The horses 

 his lordship rides himself are of the weight-carrying 

 sort, as he rides sixteen stone ; but they are well- 

 bred and good-looking, and under his weight can 

 gallop and live through any run. His four-in-hand, or 

 mail phaeton and pair, as he drives up to the meet, 

 are such as would call for approval from the pen of 

 the veriest critic on the turns-out of " the Row," on a 

 Saturday in May. Lady Waterford attends the meets 

 as well as her husband, and to see her on her horse 

 whether riding along to covert or sailing beside the 

 pack over a country during a brilliant run, is, indeed, 

 to see a female centaur ! She can, indeed, ride to 

 hounds. Nothing can exceed Lord and Lady Water- 

 ford's courtesy in the field; they are affable to all. 

 His lordship rides with the pluck and determination 

 characteristic of every Beresford ; and as his horses 

 are very good, and brought out in first-rate con- 

 dition, he lives through every run, but he has not 

 yet acquired the fine hands and seat which his 

 uncle had and which his younger brothers, even 

 the sailor, Lord Charles, have. They are all accovi- 

 plished horsemen, and no doubt before long he will 

 have attained these attributes. As I said before 



