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who bore speaking to so ill, that he and the Squire fell 

 out. Over and over again, the Squire was heard to 

 say to him, " Ah ! Tarqiim, if you doiit like me, I like 

 you;' but the proud blood of Trickster by Belvoir 

 Topper steadily refused to make it up. He took no 

 notice of the hounds till after Christmas, but he did 

 no harm ; and it was in a fine run from Wragby 

 Woods towards Market Rasen that he suddenly came 

 out, like a shot, from the body of them, and rolled his 

 fox over, single-handed. He especially distinguished 

 himself in the suburbs of Lichfield, when he carried it 

 by himself along nearly three hundred yards of wall, 

 at the bottom of some gardens ; and deaf to the 

 shrieks of the women, who rushed frantically at their 

 clothes-lines, to try and rescue some articles at least 

 from the grasp of the scarlet Philistines, marked him 

 for his own between two store pigs in a stye. For six 

 seasons he did his work well ; and, in after years, Tom 

 gently laid his remains under a slab, in the path from 

 the huntsman's house at Quorn to the kennel. Then, 

 for the first and last time, did Tom give way to the 

 seductions of verse ; and we wish that a tithe of our 

 poets could express their ideas with half the grapple 

 and feeling that he did. A slate was got from the 

 Switheland Pits, and he " furnished copy" to the stone- 

 cutter as follows : — 



** 'Tis here my favourite Tarquin lies — 

 Turn away sportsmen, and wipe your eyes ; 

 Not the only favourite in the pack, 

 But Tarquin never in work was slack." 



Furrier. 



Rocket (the sire of Prodigal, and espe- 

 cially great down a road), and Furrier, 

 were both stud-kings at Quorn in their turn. Furrier 

 was by the Belvoir Saladin, and originally came in a 

 draft from the Duke of Rutland, with whom " The 

 Squire" exchanged very freely. They did not think 

 very highly of him, as his work was not brilliant 



