MR. tilbury's system of LETTINti HORSES. l(JO 



whom many of my readers will recollect as a hard 

 rider, offered him his nag, which was still comparatively 

 fresh, which he immediately mounted, and getting for- 

 ward with his hounds, killed his fox at Brampton-wood, 

 after a most severe run of upwards of an hour and a 

 half. This act of kindness and attention towards a 

 huntsman was not thrown away, as it was the cause of 

 Mr. Whitworth selling his horse on tlie following day, 

 to a gentleman in Leicestershire, for two hundred and 

 fifty guineas. Some horses last much longer than 

 others, partly owing to the strength of their constitu- 

 tions, but more especially to the care with which they 

 have been ridden over the country, and the manner in 

 which they are kept during the summer. 



In some hunts the horses for the servants are jobbed 

 by the season ; and where a pack of hounds are kept 

 up by subscription, without any certainty of their 

 being continued from one year to another, it may bo 

 found to answer; but it is a disreputable way of doing- 

 business, to say the best of it. The horses, from lame- 

 ness or some other cause, are continually being changed, 

 and by their not being accustomed to be ridden 

 amongst hounds, frequently kick and injure them. 

 With regard to the danger of kicking, I can speak 

 most feelingly, having suffered with a fractured limb 

 from the very cause I have been mentioning. Amongst 

 the many speculators in horse-flesh, who have at- 

 tempted to provide hunters for the above purpose, 

 none have ever succeeded in giving satisfaction to their 

 employers, excepting Mr. Tilbury, and his extreme 

 liberality, and constant desire to accommodate those 

 gentlemen who have been induced to hire hunters from 

 his yard, has no doubt been the chief rceson of his 



