1 8 Silk and Scarlet, 



hmmdSy and never leave them" So in I went ; and 

 Fm blamed if he wasn't waiting to see me come out — 

 great dry ditch, and cut and bound hedge. ^^ Now, 

 that's well done',' he says ; ''go on, and keep with the 

 Jioimdsr It was the beautifullest run of an hour and 

 a half; they viewed him the last mile afore they 

 killed him, close by the water-mill in the Navigation 

 by Ratclyffe. Mr. Burbidge, he rides up to me. 

 " What, Richard, you've had a glass too fnuch, to go 

 that way ; you never stopped at gates or nothing, and 

 you beat us all clean out'' The gentlemen comes up 

 when we had killed, and they says, " Now, Coke, what 

 do you think of it?" He says, quite short, ''It's very 

 satisfactory f I thi7ik." So there was something in it I 

 Influence of didn't know of. Captain White was up 

 Captain White to it. I hears him, about a field behind 

 on his character. ^^^ hollering all the Way, " Go along, old 

 fellow ! go and ketch him, gentlemen !" The Captain 

 was always for me ; he kept hardening me on. I 

 don't think I'd ever have gone at such fences, but he 

 had such a pleasant way with him ; never done holler- 

 ing at me. I couldn't help going a tickler. 



Bro k b This Thrussington was a shiny place 



in Sir Harry's time ; capital doings there. 

 They've pulled all the kennels down. They're not 

 much of cooks at that public-house ; they cut the ham 

 as thick as my thumb ; you didn't make much way 

 with it. Barkby we can't see from here. This is 

 Brooksby ; nice place, ain't it } Hay smells prime, 

 don't it } There's land as is land ! General Grosve- 

 nor Hved here, and then Lord Cardigan a bit. It 

 was a great meet in Mr. Meynell's time. They drew 

 Cream Gorse and Ashby Pastures ; it was all open 

 like a common ; there was no trotting by bridle-roads 

 then. 



Lord Lonsdale's Mr. Meynell and Mr. Noel, I mind they 



Hounds. Qn(.g joined in the Ranksboro' country. 



Noel's had all the best of it : Arthur Abbey hunted. 



