268 AN ENGLISH GAMEKEEPER. 



No one paid much attention to his story at 

 the time, but about half-an-hour afterwards, 

 on their getting up from their meal to resume 

 work, Phillips went up to one of the horses 

 attached to a waggon, to put his bridle on, or do 

 something with the bridle. Just at this 

 moment a fly bit the horse, causing him to 

 swing his head round to his shoulder, in order 

 to knock off the fly, when the bridle ring of 

 the bit caught in the hook of the shaft, so as 

 to prevent the horse bringing his head back 

 into place again. This of course very much 

 frightened the animal, which turned restive 

 and plunged about, at length breaking away 

 from Phillips, and galloping wildly off. Phillips 

 was knocked down and the waggon passed 

 over him, crushing his head out quite flat ; 

 the wheels carried away his brains and portions 

 of his skull for a long distance, and they had 

 great difficulty in gathering up the remains of 

 his crushed head. It was fearfully mutilated, 

 and they were obliged to collect dirt, stubble, 

 brains and bones, all together, and bury them. 



Such was the end of Phillips ; he died with 



