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to admire him wonderfully, and it was his constant 

 saying that " A man should carry that Micklewood in 

 his eye ivJien he goes to buy anythi?tgy' and " Mind iv hat 

 yotHre at ; tJie old horses ears are forzuard" became as 

 constant a saying in the hunt. But we are forgetting 

 Tarquin, who became stifled at Berkeley, and then 

 went to Wynnstay, where he did not get Contest and 

 any puppies. Lord Henry Bentinck's Con- Comrade, 

 test and Comrade were both crossed with Tarquin 

 bitches to give them more style ; but although Con- 

 test could do his work with the pack, Comrade was 

 the perpetual victim of stifle lameness, and never 

 sound for two days together. Among others, they 

 also used Foljambe's Albion, a light-coloured clever 

 hound, as well as Belvoir Roman, and Watchman, 

 with Druid, and the modern Belvoir Rallywood's elder 

 brother Ranter from the Yarborough kennel. John 

 Ward of the Worcestershire had also a rare slice of 

 their Abelard by Hector as a litter of eleven by him 

 from Beaufort Winifred came in, and were all entered 

 with the exception of one, which was too small. 



Shropshire is full of old hunting ^^^^ ^^^^ 

 memories, from the time of Tom Moody 

 and Trojan, and when the flag-staff on the grig- 

 clad steeps of Haughmond Hill told that Squire 

 Corbet and Will Barrow had brought back the hounds 

 from Warwickshire for a few weeks in the season. 

 Will Barrow, as his epitaph records, enjoys no 

 more 



" The stirring chase 

 Of hounds and foxes striving in the race," 



and sleeps just under the hill from which he plucked 

 so many long-tagged trophies. Those were the days 

 when the Squire had gates four miles round Sun- 

 dorne, and if he did get to a fence, it was always, 

 ^^ Please oblige me by turning my horse over ; and Fll 

 catch yours " — but he always forgot. Then there was 

 Sir Richard Puleston, with his curly sterns, who had 



