46 OLD FIREBUAND. 



to Oxford, a distance of sixteen miles ; but her 

 spirit being stronger than her body, she became 

 aharmingly ill the next day, and did not leave the 

 stable again for several weeks. The next season 

 she proved a capital hunter, and after riding her 

 several years, she Avas turned out at last for a 

 brood mare. 



The country run over that day I cannot now 

 call to mind, but it was a severe one, and the pace 

 first-rate ; l^ut I well remember following Peyton 

 over a wide and nasty -looking brook (my mare had 

 never seen water before), and from the high bound 

 she made, she came down on her nose the other 

 side, where we had a bit of a scramble together 

 without parting company, and were soon up and 

 away again after old Pirebrand, who Avas lead- 

 ing the pack that day, and being afterw^ards stifled, 

 i. 0. lamed in the stifle joint, I obtained him from 

 Tom AVinsfield as a stallion hound. 



