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now residing in the neighbourhood of Aires- 

 ford. The major, like many of the rest of us, 

 is not so quick as he was ten years ago; but 

 the turn-out of himself and his horse is i quite 

 the thing.' Talking of a neat turn-out, how- 

 ever, I must not omit one member of this 

 Hunt, who has so long been conspicuous in 

 Mr. David this difficult art — I mean Mr. David 

 Murray. Murray. When I first knew Mr. 

 Murray he was a member of Christ Church 

 College, Oxford, and rode a horse, if possible, 

 neater than himself. I allude to the well- 

 known Zig-Zag, afterwards purchased by Lord 

 Plymouth at so large a price, and, in my 

 opinion, a complete pattern of a Leicestershire 

 hunter, for a certain weight, Mr. Murray cer- 

 tainly does the thing well, and in these mixed 

 times I like to see a man looking like a gen- 

 tleman. 



"It is not, however, among the patrician 

 order alone that we are to look for examples. 

 In an humble sphere there are two or three 

 persons who seldom miss a day's hunting with 

 Mr. Yillebois' hounds, who are well entitled to 

 a niche in the Sporting Magazine. First, there 



nate expedition to Holland. He afterwards exchanged into the 11th 

 Light Dragoons, in which he served in the Peninsular campaign, and 

 left that regiment and the service as major in 1814. His coming into 

 Hampshire is due entirely to the fact of Truman Villebois, whom he 

 knew well, hunting the country. He died March, 1817. — Author. 



