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Sir Richard's patience as a huntsman sir Richard's 

 was most eminently displayed in the Patience. 

 great run of twenty miles, from point to point, on 

 December 27th, 1850. The find was at Cossington 

 Gorse, and after some very slow hunting over the 

 Heaths beyond Scorford, they eventually brought 

 him to hand in four hours at Denton Park. Sir 

 Richard went home in the Duke's carriage, while the 

 hounds stopped all night at the Belvoir kennels ; and 

 Will — when he returned from hunting, and found Jack 

 and his Trueman party — did not fail to dwell, in his 

 merry style, upon the enormity of running a fox over 

 the heart of his country, and asking for " grub" and 

 bed as well ; let alone never giving him a chance of 

 bringing it back to Quorn. 



Latterly Sir Richard did not ride with , ^^ Mor^^an 

 so much nerve : and did not like brooks. 

 Jack Morgan, on one occasion, rode his horse for him 

 over Stanton Wyvile Brook, and then carried him 

 through it on his shoulders ; and two years before he 

 died, he crossed the Smite in the same primitive 

 fashion, with his bearer fairly up to his hips in mud. 

 Jack joined Sir Richard from Mr. Mure, and became 

 his head whip when his brother Ben was made hunts- 

 man to the Berwickshire. Before he took to hounds, 

 he had become pretty well bronzed under the sun of 

 the tropics, whither he went off at a moment's notice. 

 He and another man had been put in charge by old 

 Jim Morgan, of twenty couple of hounds, bull-dogs, 

 terriers, &c., which were intended for the East. By 

 the time the voyage from Gravesend to Po.tsmouth 

 was complete, Jack's travelling companion proved to 

 be so dull a student, that he forgot thedogs' names as 

 fast as he learnt them, and as he was haunted with a 

 vague idea that they would eat him on the voyage, 

 the captain told Jack to jump on board, and come to 

 the East. Boy-like, he did so, without having time 

 even to write to his father, and set to work at once to 



