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Messrs. Stirling Crawfurd and Little Gilmour — Mr. 

 Muntz seems to form the exception to tlie rule that like 

 pace '^ weight must tell.''^ Be it in a point-to-point 

 steeple-chase, or in a gallop from Lilbourne Gorse to 

 Hemplow Hills^ the broad shoulders of the honourable 

 M.P. for South Warwickshire are sure to be seen well in 

 front, thereby confirming the belief of many, that it is 

 " the man that carries the horse, and not the horse the 

 man.^^ 



Tom Assheton Smith was firm in his belief that where 

 the heart was, there would horse and his rider be 

 gathered together, the sympathy between the two being 

 of so intimate a nature, that if the one ^^ did not quite 

 like it," the other was sure to be afraid. With all the 

 disadvantages attendant upon the possession of a " too, 

 too solid flesh,"" the man who has Mr. Muntz behind him 

 in a run of note may go home pluming himself upon 

 his own performance as well as on that of his horse. 

 '^ The race is not always for the swift nor the battle for 

 the strong," but the chase invariably preserves her plums 

 for the stout-hearted. 



LORD BRAYE. 



Theee are more disagreeable ways of spending- twelve 

 or fifteen minutes any time between November and 

 April, than in a gallop across the big grass-fields between 

 Hemplow and Stanford Hall. Time was when hares 

 so swarmed over this particular district that hounds were 

 rarely able to cross it without several ^'hesitations," if 

 not something worse. Happily, poor puss has had a bad 

 time of late ; and if only scent permit, so uninterrupted a 



