Dick Christian again, 51 



--quite a high man. Goosey always brings the 

 jiounds to cover, and he follows on his hack. Buckle, 

 the jockey, was often down staying with him to hunt. 

 : He'd a great horse-leather pair of boots he wore ; he 

 left them behind, and Will Head got them. Lord 

 Forester was master of the hounds seven- Lord Forester 

 and-twenty seasons ; he's just turned ^^^ ^^^- Grant. 

 them over to the Duke. Deary me ! I wish his father 

 and Lord Delamere were alive, to read these lectures 

 of mine. I've known this lord from a boy. When he 

 first come to Melton, they called him Mr. George 

 Forester. He was at the Old Club — you've seen the 

 picture — that's him a-warming the fire ; it was Mr. 

 Grant as did it. Mr Grant takes a monstrous lot of 

 beating across country yet, for all his weight. Lord 

 Forester's never been out of flying things since I've 

 known him. Such a man for sport — longest days 

 anywhere ! Him and Will didn't think nothing of 



finding a fox by moonlight. Will whipped Belvoir Records. 



into Goosey some four-and-a-half seasons; 

 and he took to the hounds in July, 1842. Then 

 Goosey goes to be kennel-huntsman to Sir Richard, 

 at Cottesmore. He dies at his cottage at Wools- 

 thorpe, and they buries him at Knipton ; you can't 

 see it from here. Mr. Newman, he'll be buried at 

 Waltham. Shawe died at seventy-six, but I don't 

 know where. He had the hounds eleven seasons, and 

 Goosey six-and-twenty. Goosey used to keep a . 

 foreign black fox at the kennels. It's stufTed at the 

 Belvoir Inn now. Last season they kills one hundred 

 and twelve foxes in one hundred and sixteen days ; 

 season before, one hundred and twenty-four foxes in 

 one hundred and twenty-three. Capital sport, ain't 

 it } I know it's correct, I hear it from Will Goodaii 

 myself; Will and I are always uncommon friendly 

 They've sixty couple of hounds, five days a week; 

 they run 'em mixed 



The fight between Cribb and Molineux } — to be sure 

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