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used to have a badger drawn every Sunday morning — a 

 pastime of which he was very fond when there was 

 apparently nothing better to do. He also loved to watch 

 his horses cantering or galloping about the paddocks, so 

 that he might criticize their pace and action at his leisure. 

 " The beggars can go," he would say, " and if they 

 couldn't they would soon be begging their way to another 

 home." 



We must also give the following citation from cheery 

 Tom Gilbert, who is never tired of talking on this, his 

 favourite theme : — 



" I can remember finding a fox at Norwood with the 

 Old Surrey, and we ran him to Croydon by the race- 

 course, thence to Wickham, giving him a rare dusting, 

 and killing after a capital gallop. The country round 

 Norwood was then all open ; a man might ride over it 

 with pleasure. Oh ! " — and the genial raconteur chuckled 

 with delight — " here is another good Surrey run which I 

 must tell you about, though it took place about half a 

 century ago. We found in Banstead Park, and ran him 

 through Chip House and Kingswood, and over through 

 Margery, pushing him till he sank the hill and raced on 

 towards Dorking. There he managed to elude us for 

 some time. The huntsman cast all through Betchworth 

 Park with no success, so we gave it up and started for 

 home. An old man was working by the side of the road, 

 and in reply to the question whether he had seen a fox 

 during the last half-hour, he said, ' There has been no 

 fox anywhere about here.' Then, curiously, a hound 



