PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS 



course I avoided riding her at high rails ; and in this run 1 

 might have been in difficulties more than once had it not 

 been for young Mr. Henry Greaves, who was in the habit, if 

 he came to any unusually high place, to jump quickly off his 

 horse and take down the top bar. He was an extremely 

 strong and active young man, and lost very little time over 

 this proceeding ; he was also useful in helping his father, who 

 was a very stout big man, to get over the country. Captain 

 Glynne Welby, who had consulted the ordnance map on his 

 return to Denton, afterwards informed me that we had run 

 through no less than seventeen different parishes in the course 

 of this long hunting run. 



Early in Gillard's time I recollect a capital gallop from 

 Sherbrook's Gorse. The fox went away as if he was ma king 

 for Hose Gorse, but, taking a sudden right-handed turn, he 

 went through part of the village of Long Clawson and as- 

 cended the hill, leaving Piper Hole Gorse to the left, and 

 made straight for Goadby Park plantation, near which place we 

 lost him after a very fast thirty-five minutes. In this run Mr. 

 Hardy, the banker at Grantham, went as well as anybody. 

 I was well mounted, on a brown mare I had purchased of 

 Mr. Tipping, of Croxton, and she carried me brilliantly. 

 Captain " Bay " Middleton and myself both jumped the wall 

 out of Piper Hole field (a few stones had been knocked off 

 before), but it was a high and rather wide place, and took 

 some doing. Afterwards, as I was the sole representative of 

 Belvoir who was out. Captain Middleton came and congratu- 

 lated me on hunting with such a fine pack of hounds, and 

 remarked it was indeed a first-rate gallop, and how wonder- 

 fully well the hounds worked out the line of the fox, even over 

 the cold and deep-ploughed fields under Piper Hole Gorse. 



The Duke of Rutland's infirmities prevented his being able 

 to ride to hounds during the last five or six years of his life, 

 but he sometimes went out to the meets which were close at 

 hand, on wheels, as he much enjoyed having a talk to his old 

 friends, and also, if possible, to see something of the sport. 

 The last occasion that he attempted to ride up to hounds 

 was after a meet at Allington Hall, and, unfortunately, he 



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