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Francis Goodricke the name of his horse that morning; 

 and on being told that it was " Patent Lever," he re- 

 joined — ''Mind they don't make a stop-watch of him 

 before they re done!' And sure enough the baronet was 

 glad to stop at Walton's Holt, four miles off the finish. 

 There were other runs as great in that short but merry 

 Northamptonshire reign, and none greater than that 

 from Kelmarsh to Stoke. On this memorable day, 

 Mr. Stubbs on Baronet and Will Derry on a grey, 

 were both in Loatland Brook together, forming the 

 most impressive of tableaux. Baronet had jumped 

 short, and was scrambling out with his own rider on 

 his back, and the weight of Will and his grey to boot. 

 Lord Chesterfield got well over lower down, on Mar- 

 mion ; they just heard him say, " Frn so glad WilVs in 

 the brook',' but they never caught him till they killed, 

 five miles away. Perhaps the fastest forty minutes 

 was when his lordship was on Claxton, and Will was 

 tearing away on a chestnut mare after losing his 

 stirrups in Creaton Brook. They found at Berrydale, 

 away past Cotte.sbrook Cow Pasture, leaving Spratton 

 on the right, and close by Merry Tom (whose bones 

 were never found till they were dug up at the stile 

 where he died, by the Harborough Railway navvies), 

 to Pitsford across the turnpike to Boughton Green, 

 and ran into him on Moulton Lings. Their longest 

 runs were with a Long Ould fox, which they had to 

 bequeath to Mr. Tom Smith. In the first run with 

 nim the hounds were stopped at Earls Barton, after 

 running twenty-five miles ; and in the second, at Ket- 

 tering, after twenty miles. Mr. Smith always thought 

 that he ran him to Lamport one day, and chopped 

 him the next. 



Mr. George Payne, who bought fifteen xh • P t hi 

 couple at Mr. Greene's sale, bred very few *•' ^ <^ ^>'- 

 hounds, as he did not like to spare his best bitches, 

 and the kennel which ranked Destiny and Dainty by 

 Sir Tatton's Dragon from Quorn Gainsome among its 



