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build up a p.!ace for his pupils in the forecastle. Old 

 Jim bore the suspense like a philosopher ; as he felt 

 an inward assurance that a sharp lad like his Jack had 

 "lit on his legs somewhere." Once at Calcutta he 

 stayed three or four years, and after winning several 

 races on the Arabs, and keeping up his hunting 

 science among tigers and jackals, the present hunts- 

 man of the South wold set foot on English soil once 

 more, and after a few seasons wdth Mr. Mure took his 

 degree at Cottesmore and Quorn. 

 Last Days of Sir Richard delighted most in Mundy's 

 Sir Richard. Qorse, Walton Thorns, and Scraptoft ; 

 and in his last three seasons, the latter cover held a 

 fox, which had beaten him at least eight or ten times. 

 On the very Friday before he died the meet was at 

 Barkby Hall, and his three sons, Mr. Banks Wright 

 and the veteran Will Butler, came with him on the 

 drag. The second, or the big pack, was out that day, 

 and Sir Richard rode Shankton and Harkaway. A 

 fox was soon found, which was killed in a drain near 

 Oueeniborough ; and then he said, " Will! there s a 

 good fox lives at Sci^ap'oft : well give him a gallopT 

 And so they did, ten minutes in cover, and five-and- 

 thirty minutes out, and ran into him near Beeby. 

 " Jack I its one of the best days I ever sazv. I feel 

 better. I hope I shall meet you at Ratcliffe on Tues- 

 day" — were the last Avords he said to his favourite 

 whip, and went up to London immediately after. 

 Tuesday came ; and the Leicestershire field heard the 

 sad news from the lips of the house-steward, just as 

 they were leaving Ratcliffe Hall to draw. 

 Great Runs with Mundy's Gorse and Aylesford Gorse 

 the Duke of each furnished a rare hour and five mi- 

 Rutiand's. nutcs, without a check, on the day the 

 Duke of Rutland was invited to come into the Leices- 

 tershire country in the interval, after it had lost its 

 lamented chief. Mr. Wood of Market Overton, and 

 Mr. Burbidge of Thorpe Arnold, were the leaders in the 



