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ending with a kill near Coombes Pie, after they had 

 run through twenty-four parishes. On the first occa- 

 sion Jim rode his own black horse Mungo, whom he 

 bought and sold four times over, twice for 70/., once 

 for 20/., and finally for 15/., when he had still some- 

 thing left in him, though rising twenty-three ! In the 

 second of the runs the late Marquis of Anglesea made 

 one of the 141 out of the 150 who were beaten out of 

 sight ; and even Miss Beverley, the hitherto-untired 

 mare of Harry Fenn, the huntsman, shut up in the 

 middle of a field, a mile from the finish. Some few 

 years after this Jim whipped-in and acted as kennel 

 huntsman to the Tickham hounds, when Giles Mor- 

 gan, a neighbouring farmer, had 100/. a year to hunt 

 them, and find his own horse. Those were days when 

 Lord Sondes would bring out seventy couples, harriers 

 and foxhounds, in one great chaotic mass, run a fox 

 to ground, and get back to Lees Court at night, some 

 thirty couples short, so that the men of Kent could 

 not complain of lack of variety in their field sports. 

 Jim put his arm out five times, and so badly on 

 one occasion that his whips could not pull it in, and 

 had to ride on with the hounds and leave him. How- 

 ever he was helped on to his horse, where a chance 

 pressure of the limb on the saddle sent it once more 

 into its socket. Hence the reason he characteris- 

 tically assigns for his daring riding, " As I can- 

 not open gates, I must ride over them :" a sentiment 

 about as terse and decisive as any in the English 

 language. No wonder his sons, Ben, Jack, Goddard, 

 and Tom, ride to hounds as four brothers never rode 

 before. 



The most fortunate sale we remember, of the pro- 

 duce of one hunting mare, was in the case of the dam 

 of Panza, Clipper, and Clinker, which noble leash 

 averaged 633 guineas apiece. They were all the pro- 

 perty of the then Mr. Holyoake, who sold Clinker, 

 after he had ridden him a couple of seasons, to Cap- 



