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same sort, and Mr. Grantley Berkeley loved him quite 

 as tenderly. He used to amuse Harry Ayris and his 

 whips, as a puppy, by standing for minutes together 

 in the kennel, to wind a fox who was tied up near it, 

 through a hole in the wall ; then racing round and 

 round a hundred times to feel for the line ; and then 

 after deciding that the hole was the point, setting off 

 to test his opinion once more. He was never known 

 to speak false in the Oakley country or anywhere else, 

 and he would stop at four cross roads, and wait till 

 his master or George Carter gave him a sign. He 

 was given to Carter when he went as huntsman to the 

 Grafton country, and there he got worn out. After 

 that he went to Beacon Lodge, and did a little among 

 the otters, but he was rather unlucky with his stock, 

 which were often not quite straight. 



Warwickshire Warwickshire Tarquin, who was re- 

 Tarquia. commeudcd to the Earl by Jem Hills, 

 did the kennel some good. They had five couple by 

 him of one entry, and Tamerlane, Trojan, and Tell- 

 tale from Garland, of the old sort, were very nice in- 

 dustrious hounds. Tarquin himself was shortish- 

 necked, and short all together, and his lordship never 

 fancied him in his work as he did his three sons. Harry 



Mickiewood -^7^^^ ^^^ rather an affectionate remem- 

 brance of one of the days he was out, as 

 It was that on which he first happened to ride Mickie- 

 wood by the Old Sailor, and continued to do so for 

 ten seasons. His own horse was beat, and he borrowed 

 the dark chestnut from John Dinnicombe, and when 

 he landed over his first leap, a hedge on a bank and 

 ditch, with the hedge from him, he looked back and 

 cried, " Thank yon, JoJin ! you II ride Micklezvood no 

 more!' He originally won his name from the fact of 

 Mr. Grantley Berkeley having found him out in a 

 blazing twenty-two minutes from Mickiewood Chase, 

 when seven had a bath in the Rea, but Harry had 

 never been on him before. Old Ben Chapman used 



