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toes at two years old. He at last became jealous, and 

 too free with his tongue ; and as he deceived Joe 

 Maiden twice over in the Cheshire, by making a 

 scent for himself, he soon ceased to use him. From 

 thence he went to The Sinnington, and so on to Mr. 

 Hiirs ; and some of his granddaughters, with their 

 long dark-coloured heads, are still to be found in 

 The Hurworth. 



Will Danby's Twenty-six brace constituted the spoils 

 Accidents, of WiU's best season with the Ainsty, 

 which furnished him with the pet run of his life. 

 They found at Askham Bog, and killed after four 

 hours and ten minutes near Anghram, in the presence 

 of only seven or eight out of three hundred ; and 

 some even of that devoted band had to leave their 

 horses and finish on foot. At the close of the season 

 of 1852-53, Sir Charles Slingsby became master; and 

 as he decided to hunt the hounds himself, Will retired 

 with a testimonial, such as may well make him say, 

 " There never zvas such a well-used man by hunting 

 gentlemen as I have been." As regards accidents, he 

 has hardly so fair a tale, as, in addition to flesh-rents 

 innumerable, he has had three thigh-wrenches, and all 

 his ribs laid bare on the right side up to the breast- 

 bone. His left arm has been broken once, and his 

 collar-bone twice ; his right shoulder has been put 

 out ; he has had a slight fracture of the skull above 

 the left eye, in consequence of his horse catching in a 

 sheep-net ; and he also lay for nearly three weeks in 

 a state of coma, the result of a rheumatic fever, from 

 swimming a river. 



The Hurworth Time has, however, come with healing 

 Country. wings in each instance, and has left no 

 trace of these highly varied chances of war ; and as 

 retirement at Acomb was not his forte, he became the 

 huntsman of the Hurworth in '55. With the excep- 

 tion of the country on both sides of the Tees, which 

 separates Yorkshire and Durham, this hereditary 



