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a month. He had to carry three stone dead weight. 

 The horse stopped at his first fence, but he beat them 

 in a canter ; nineteen on 'em. Old Tilbury and Jem 

 used to come to Brixworth every year with horses. 

 Jem jumped Winwick mill-dam one journey, and set 

 the whole field. The hounds killed four fields on. My 

 word. Sir Thomas Whichcote regularly did „ g. „ 

 him and a lot of hard riders two seasons whichcote 

 ago. They run from Colston cover. Jem pounded him 

 gets first to a high gate, near Buckminster, °^ ^^^^ 

 and he gets off to open it ; Sir Thomas comes up, 

 and jumps it clean on Kegworth — him that he bought 

 at Sir Richard's sale. Sir Thomas says, when the 

 gentlenrten talks of it, " Precious hard if 320 guineas 

 cant pound somebody !' It was a deal spoke of Jem 

 never did no good with Lottery till he rode him with 

 Josh Anderson's stag-hounds. He always had a 

 double-reined snafiie and martingale. I see Jem once 

 come down here for a match ; I don't mean that 

 Abd-el-kader one. It was Tilbury had the match on, 

 but the gentleman run back ; same ground as Clinker 

 and Clasher ; the horse had to go over the ground. I 

 had one of Watson of The George's horses then, and 

 I galloped the ground with him as if we were racing. 

 Blame me, if he could have licked me ; he was not a 

 horse of much vally, no fashion, but a clipping jumper. 

 He'se driving a roaring horse trade now, is Jem, in 

 London. 



Yes, I remember Bill Wright of Upping- Affray with Bill 

 ham : he was a good-hearted chap, but vvright ; 

 such very vulgar language. Bill and me were always 

 partickler intimate ; boys together in the racing 

 stables. We once quarrelled out hunting with Lord 

 Lonsdale ! If we didn't get to horse-whipping each 

 other ! We did indeed ; for three miles, and straight 

 across country ; cut for cut. It was from Preston 

 Gorse in the Prior's Coppice country; all the gen- 

 tlemen shouting " Well dojie, DickT ''Well done, Bill f 



