20 Saddle and Sirloin, 



owner packed them off that night, and said he thought 

 they " would be good enough for London." Teddy 

 nailed him at eleven months, and got bitten through 

 his nose and shoulder, but he went in at him a few 

 days after, as resolute as ever. Badger-baiting is in 

 the blood, as Shammy's grandsire, " The Patriotic 

 Pep," killed a badger in a drain when he was quite 

 old and blind. This was at William Broadwith's, who 

 used often to turn out a badger on Longnewton 

 Forest with one and a half hours' law, whenever 

 Sir George Douglas's pack were unusually short of 

 otters. 



The performing chestnut horse was put down early 

 in '67, and was generally supposed to be rising twenty- 

 seven years, of which he had spent eleven with the 

 Doctor. As a jumper, whether of stone walls, banks, 

 or timber, he had few to touch him, and with the 

 Doctor's leaping-pole on the top of it, he cared no- 

 thing for a wire fence. He would follow his master 

 over any jump, and never separate from him when he 

 was over, however good a head hounds might be 

 carrying. For some time past he had been troubled 

 in his wind, and was found, on a careful post mortem, 

 to have aneurism of the heart and malignant disease 

 of the liver. In fact it was about time for him to 

 render up his flesh to the hounds he loved so well, and 

 his " flag," skin, and hoofs (the latter in the shape of 

 polished snuff-boxes) serve as adornments to the big 

 room of 30ft. by I5£ft., above the stables. His carcase 

 was pickled for the pack and was " as good beef as 

 ever you saw ; but perhaps not so fat as some we've 

 known." They put a sack over his head, and the 

 poor beast began to waltz with his fore feet, as if he 

 was expecting to be taught his 101st performance, 

 when down he went with No. 5 shot through the fore- 

 head. The Doctor cannot bear ball in such a crisis, 

 as his five-barrelled revolver once failed with a Bird- 

 catcher mare, and he only killed her by opening a 



