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sleeps in his shoes is forgotten at Quorn now, but 

 *' The Squire" has not forgotten how he carried him 

 right through a run with Mr. Musters's hounds when 

 the latter gentleman finished on his" third horse. 

 This old horse did not long survive his triumph, and 

 died from coming out rather too fat, to the great 

 sorrow of Tom Sebright, who rode him on that fatal 

 day. 



In his power of bearing fatigue, the late Mr. Con- 

 yers was almost a match for " The Squire," and at 

 times he would ride upwards of sixty miles to and 

 from cover. He was seldom seen to take a fence, but 

 he knew Essex so intimately that he was always up, 

 especially when he was on his pet Canvass, whom he 

 rode (as Earl Wemyss did his celebrated Prince Le 

 Boo) for seventeen seasons. This grey horse was pur- 

 chased originally for 150 guineas from Lord Chet- 

 wynd, and Mr. Assheton Smith offered 300 guineas in 

 vain. Tabor, Tomboy, and Banbury all did good 

 service to Jim Morgan during his fifteen years with 

 the Essex ; but Haydock, a fifteen-one Partisan horse, 

 and most wonderful at bank jumping, was his best ; 

 and one day he was nearly seventeen hours and a 

 half on his back. This wonderful old horseman, 

 at upwards of seventy, dropped into a lane or 

 took the most cramped of stiles, on Sultan or his rat- 

 tailed Boot-maker, as if it was mere child's play ; he 

 was the son of a tenant farmer at Flottonbrook, in 

 Suffolk, and commenced his career on a pony given 

 him by his uncle, when Mr. Lloyd, of Hintlesham, 

 kept harriers there. He distinguished himself so much 

 by charging a gate out of a lane, when nearly a whole 

 field got set fast, that when the harriers were trans- 

 muted into foxhounds, their master and Parson Tweed 

 went to his father, and got his consent for Jim to be- 

 come a whip. It was during his eleven years' service 

 that Mr. Lloyd had his 4 hours 20 minutes from 

 Swallins Grove, and another of only five minutes less, 



