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his post of whip, and ever after rode behind 

 Mr. Nunez) he contrived to be pretty well up 

 wich his hounds, and see what was going on. 

 His best horses were, perhaps, Ducat and So- 

 merset ; his hunters were specially noticed by 

 Nimrocl in his tour in Hants. I must not 

 omit another famous horse, Blemish, who, 

 carrying fourteen stone, and ridden by Cap- 

 tain Bridges, won a sweepstakes in 1820, after 

 two heats; the captain coming in with his 

 whip in his mouth. 



At this time the Hambledon hunted West 

 Dean Wood, and occasionally stopped at 

 Colonel Wyndham's kennels at the Drove. 

 In the year 1861, Mr. Cross, a retired stage- 

 coachman, favoured the British public with 

 his biography, and to render his work more 

 amusing, he introduced some anecdotes of Mr. 

 Nunez, of which some were only partly true, 

 while others were mere inventions of his own, 

 and were not told in a cheery, good-natured 

 manner. Mr. Cross should have known that 

 it is possible to be witty, yet accurate and 

 friendly at the same time, and, in my humble 

 judgment, where a writer cannot say a good- 

 natured thing, he had better say nothing at 

 all. There never was a kinder-hearted or more 

 hospitable man in Hants than Mr. Nunez. 



