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5 p.m. ; and we knew him to be the same fox we had 

 dusted twice before, on account of one of his thighs 

 having the appearance of being cHpped. So I think 

 seventeen hours astride of pig-skin in one day made a 

 very good wind-up of my career in the Hoiderness." 



The next season found Will installed The York and 

 at White House, within easy distance of Ainsty. 

 Bill Scott (who kept a special bottle of raspberry 

 vinegar for him in the cellarette) as huntsman to the 

 York and Ainsty. Rosebud and Lollypop were his 

 favourite nags, and the former carried him for twelve, 

 and the latter for eleven out of sixteen seasons ; and 

 Tarquin, Crotchet by Sir Tatton's Climbank, Trouncer 

 by Hodgson's Vexer. Nestor ; and Triumph, and 

 Traveller, by Trouncer from Tasty by Trimbush were 

 among the hounds of his heart, which ran to head 

 in many a rare thing from Askham Bog, or the Wild 

 Man. 



To be in Will's society, and not learn trimbush 

 about Trimbush, would be drawing him 

 blank indeed ; and if Mr. Williamson was ever to hear 

 of it, he would make sure that deponent must have 

 got hold of the wrong man. Trimbush was by Bads- 

 worth Tickler from Yarborough Virgin, and so back 

 to Osbaldeston's Vanquisher, through nearly as many 

 V's as there are stiles of that shape near Hurworth. 

 Will Smith sent him to the Ainsty with a broken arm 

 and a " beautiful pedigree of five-and-twenty years"; 

 but he never greatly distinguished himself, till he 

 worked it about half a mile down a road near Shipton- 

 on-Ouse, which the hares were crossing every instant, 

 while the rest could hardly feather on the grass. 

 Both Mr. Lloyd and Will thought he was taking it 

 too far; and the former had just said, " Will! it^s 

 a band or a stallion r when he " went through the 

 hedge like a gun," and killed him soon after. Tom 

 Carter was a great admirer of his, and sent several 

 bitches to him, but many of his stock let down their 



