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Lincolnsliire and the Burton, and, when he liked to go, dis- 

 played as good nerve as ever to the last. 



Lord Doneraile succeeded him, but kept the country only two 

 seasons, when Mr. Henry Chaplin took it, and went on with 

 Charles Hawtin as huntsman in the field and Ben Goddard as 

 kennel huntsman. Henry Dawkins and Will Hawtin were the 

 whips. So keen was Mr. Chaplin, that I have known him, when 

 the days got long, take out a pack early in the morning and have 

 a run, and then be at regular fixture the same as usual. The 

 same liberal manner of conducting things which Lord Henry 

 Bentinck had inaugurated was continued by Mr. Chaplin, and 

 not only was everything well done at the kennels, but the men 

 w^ere magnificently mounted. I especially remember one horse 

 that Charles Hawtin used to ride, called the Better Deed, as 

 he was bought on a Sunday, and I never saw a finer fencer cross 

 a country. It is needless to say that Mr. Chaplin himself has 

 always been especially well mounted, as indeed w^as needful, as 

 he is far from a light-weight, and where hounds go he goes, be 

 the country what it may. He has, perhaps, never had a better 

 horse than the grand chestnut. Emperor the First, which I have 

 seen him go well on, and no wonder, as he was at one time 

 considered the best weight-carrier in England, and report says 

 that Mr. Chaplin refused a thousand guineas for him. With 

 Emperor the Second, a good horse, but slow, he won the Grand 

 jSTational Hunt Steeplechase at Wetherby in 1865; and this 

 appears to have been a very favourite encounter with him, as he 

 was again to the front with Emperor the Third, an own brother 

 of Emperor the Second, at Bedford in 1867, the horse having 

 been schooled by his brother, Mr. Cecil Chaplin, and in 1870 he 

 was successful with Schiedam, bred by Mr. Blenkiron. Mr, 

 Chaplin also bought the celebrated prize-winner Tom from 

 Mr. Gee; but, like most show-yard horses, he proved no 

 great bargain, beautiful as he was (and I have seldom seen a 

 handsomer), when asked to perform in the field, and dropped 

 into the undignified position of a whip's horse. Either his 



