1800.] OF HAMPSHIRE. 35 



Mr. William Chute never jumped at all 

 latterly, but always got off and took hold of 

 his horse's tail, who drew him up. At no 

 time was he a hard rider; and it is related 

 that, one day in a run, he came to some 

 hurdles, and asked a farmer to pull the stake 

 out ; the farmer got off and did so, and said, 

 "Now you can come." "Stop, let me get off," 

 said Mr. Chute, " and I will turn my horse 

 over the ditch." " But there is no ditch," 

 said the farmer, "and your horse will walk 

 over." " But I fancy there is a ditch, and 

 that is the same thing." 



Mr. Ellis St. John of West Court, 1790. 

 Finchampstead, kept hounds for Mr. st. John 



t • , -1 i • of West 



many years, beginning with harriers, court. 

 which were the old Dorsetshire or 

 Mountain breed, very handsome and clever. 

 Thomas Tocock, father of Mr. Garth's well- 

 known servant, was his huntsman ; however, 

 he changed them for fox-hounds, purchasing 

 the Duke of Bridgewater's pack, and hunted 

 himself that part of the country better known 

 afterwards as Sir John Cope's. 



Mr. St. John was a first-rate sportsman, and 

 so keen and excellent as a huntsman, that he 

 has been compared to the celebrated Jack 

 Russell of the north of Devon. Joe Joe Pace. 



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