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avarice. Will had marked him down during the year 

 for something ; and as he was one of the *' good boys" 

 that day, and kept behind the cords so well, he was 

 honoured with half-a-crown. He positively grumbled ; 

 and Will, in his pleasant way, said, " Well, give it me 

 back /" and the man, thinking, from the tone, that it 

 was to be exchanged for a crown, did so, and off Will 

 rode with it, and taught him a lesson which his 

 comrades did not forget to keep alive. He was rather 

 amused this year with five of the Farmers' Plate 

 horses getting distanced, and made a note of it in his 

 Hunting Diary along with Zuyder Zee's victory. Two 

 or three more days' hunting followed, and then the 

 last one, when they met at Belvoir. 



His phraseology was very unique and expressive ; 

 and " screamed over the fallows!' *' 7'aced into him and 

 eat him,'' " a blazijig honr,'^ *' bleiv him up in the 

 open',' &c., were great expressions with him, and very 

 characteristic of the ceaseless energy of the man. His 

 diary, which will, we trust, be printed, is a very re- 

 markable work — quite as much for the little comments 

 on man, horse, and hound throughout it, as for its 

 vivid description of the sport itself Passing events 

 are interspersed here and there. We find the death 

 of " my much respected friend John Ashbourn" chro- 

 nicled near Mr. Assheton Smith's ; and the marriage 

 of a first-flight Meltonian is not forgotten. He never 

 failed to see what every hound was doing, and at 

 night a little cross was put above each of their names 

 for every good hit they had made. When it was 

 something out of the common, they had a note as 

 well. For instance, " Lucy made a famous hit at 

 Williford, and won her fox ;" " Belle showed great 

 superiority of nose ;" and "Wishful beat the whole 

 pack, and, racing out of it, caught the fox." Wishful, 

 however, catches it herself in a widely different sense 

 from his pen that self-same season ; and we find it 

 down against her in black and white that she " and 



