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Oakham. That's Mundy's Gorse — small, enclosed 

 country, and plenty of foxes. Lord Suffield had such 

 a clipper from here ; fourteen miles clean away to 

 Colwick, side of the Trent. See ! that's Shoby 

 Scholes — there, on the other side of the trees. 

 There's a reed pond in one part ; that's where Tom 

 Sebright put the double on " Perpetual Motion." I 

 think he was a Belvoir fox ; he mostly took off that 

 way. I've seen a many good runs from it, and bushels 

 of beaten horses ; they so often brought a fox from 

 other places there. 

 The Six Hills This is the Six Hills country. Dal ! 



Country. there's nothing that's not happened to me 

 in it ; the fences are quite jumpable, but most of it's 

 plough. The horses can't stand on above half an 

 hour, if they keep straight on without a check. The 

 fields are small, none of them above ten acres. 

 They're always a jumping ; single fence with a ditch ; 

 some of them a ditch on both sides ; ditches not very 

 wide, but wide enough to throw a horse down. The 

 slower you ride at them the better ; they only want 

 a handy horse, a perfect hunter, not a flying horse. 

 His Huntsman I had a long time with hounds, as whip 



Career. ^o Sir Gilbert. I never did much as a 

 huntsman, except once or twice when Abbey was not 

 out. I could tootle a bit. Bedad ! you should have 

 heard Sir Richard blow his horn ; that was music, I 

 believe you. Old Abbey was a bit of a musician, that 

 way ; I couldn't blow much. Jack Davis, of the 

 Rufford, he can make it rally out. I could holler, and 

 speak to a hound pretty well, but I had only a mid- 

 dling voice. I once made a bit of a hit when I had 

 hold of the hounds, just over a road. Lord Lonsdale 

 was out. "■ Richardy' he says (he always spoke that 

 way), ^^ Richard y that's as fine a cast as I ever sazv 

 made ; you quite deceived me^ We brought the fox 

 from Mankrie Wood, close to The Bull at Witham 

 Common, seven or eight miles, slap through Woodwell 



