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hunted him in Leicestershire ; he had killed a man or 

 two ; I had a fine jump on him ; you see I always 

 liked to be forward enough, and it was a tremendous 

 fence, but I got well over. The huntsman daren't go ; 

 Sir Gilbert he was frightfully angry ; he called to 

 him, " You daren't come, sir ! daren't you ? You on 

 a 400-guinea horse, and you can't follow little Dick, 

 a lad —I'll discharge you, if you don't ;" and, my 

 word, he did discharge him too. We ran from Tilton 

 Wood and killed under Billesdon Coplow. I had 

 pretty nearly all the fun to myself after that fence. 

 Then we had that '* Prince of Wales's day ;" he was 

 nowhere, bless you ; they gave him the brush though, 

 just to please him. We found at Armley Wood, 

 then through Empingham, Cottesmore Wood, straight 

 through Exton Park, across the North Road by Horn 

 Lane toll bar, through Ardwick Wood, where the 

 balloon from Nottingham fell, The Lings, Towthorpe 

 Oaks, Stamford Field-side, Royal Belthorpe, Rasen 

 Gretford ; then we came to Langtoft and Deeping — 

 let me see — and Tallerton, and then by Uppington 

 Wood, and killed at Essendine Park — that's it. Six 

 horses died in the field ; there they laid heels up'ards. 

 Mr. Charles Manners and Sir Gilbert were up first. 

 There must have been twenty-two miles or more. 

 The crow would have made sixteen or seventeen of 

 it. The late Lord Lonsdale was out, and Lindow, 

 and Germaine, and Vanneck. I would be about 

 twenty-eight then, and somewhere about ten stone. 

 Me and Sir Gilbert, we went on till he gave up 

 hounds ; that would be 1 809 ; deary me ! it's getting 

 on for fifty years : how time does go ! His horses, 

 they were all sold at Tattersall's ; thirty on 'em made 

 about 5000/. Then, you see, I went into a farm at 

 Luffenham for eight years. I had married before I 

 was twenty ; children, indeed ! I have had one-and- 

 twenty of 'em, all alive, born and christened ; the 

 twentieth's alive now, and little Freddy he's the nine- 



