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death, he galloped through Asfordby full tilt. He 

 was uncommon partickler about stale bread ; lock it 

 up in the sideboard till it was a fortnight old, and 

 take the crust back if he couldn't finish. Not a bit of 

 a miser either. Made a deal of his money by betting 

 and buying up plots of ground alongside great pro- 

 prietors. 



The first time I ever see Mr. Smith Mr. Assheton 

 was when I lived with Sir Gilbert, at Smith. 

 Normanton. He was always along with him or the 

 Duke ; they didn't know much of him in the Quorn 

 then. One day Lord Sefton's met at Brooksby, go- 

 ing to Ashby Pastures. He drove Jack-a-Lantern six 

 times at a flight of rails before he could get him over ; 

 people were all asking who it was. Jack often wouldn't 

 jump a fence if he offended him ; then he would get 

 off, and give him a kick and a hit with his fist, and 

 call for another. He was a rare man with pistiana 

 his fists ; quite fond of it. Once he had 

 a round with a carter in Leicester. He said he had 

 touched his horse, which was tied to some rails, when 

 he was in the bank. Off he galloped to Quorn, just 

 as he was ; sent the man 2/. by his valet, for turning 

 on him so well. Then what d'ye think he did } He 

 put a beefsteak on his eye, and pulled a night-cap 

 over it ; gets into his carriage for all the world like a 

 man going to be hung ; and went out several miles to 

 dinner, and tells the whole story, and what a brave 

 chap he'd met. English of him, wasn't it } That's 

 your sort. There were a many different tales about 

 it, but they tell me this at Quorn. 



He was his own huntsman all the time Mr. Smith's greaf 

 he wur at Quorn, from 1806 to 18 16. Hunters. 

 Tom Wingfield had left ; Dick Burton and Jack 

 Shirley were his whips. I've known him, if he were 

 at Belvoir, come all the way from Belvoir to Gumley 

 of a morning, two-and-thirty miles, to cover, and back 

 again at night. He had horses posted at Melton and 



