35^ The Post and the Paddock. 



was seventy-six I thought I wur done that time ; it 

 brought on erysipelas ; I must be as hard as nails ; 

 both wheels were on my legs ; it was done in Bing- 

 ham Town ; some old woman saw it. I take a deal 

 of breaking up ; I never see no fear, not even now, 

 and I just see at a distance as well as ever I did, when 

 I'm with hounds. 



What runs I have seen in Leicestershire to be sure ! 

 I mind we had two cHppers with Tom Sebright ; no 

 huntsman ever went so well over Leicestershire, except 

 it be Will Goodall. I never saw such a pack of hounds 

 as the Duke's is now, all so much alike. The Squire's 

 were the best I ever saw at Ouorn. Of all men for 

 condition of hounds and pleasantness, I never see 

 Goodall beat ; but I was telling you about Tom 

 Sebright's run. We met at Prestwold early on in the 

 season ; I mind we were talking about who would be 

 the master of the Quorn ; it proved Sir Bellingham 

 Graham, he only held them that season. The first 

 covert to try was a plantation near the garden wall ; 

 the hounds wouldn't be in a minute when one of the 

 garden men gives a shout, and a fox goes right along 

 the wall and away ; Tom gives his view halloo, when 

 the hounds came quickly and crossed the field where 

 we met. My word, we went a clinker to Walton Thorns, 

 by Six Hills — then over the Foss, nearly to Thrus- 

 sington Wolds — down to the left by Dalby Wood 

 into the vale, leaving Holwell Mouth, Clawson, and 

 Statherne on the right, and killed him under the 

 Belvoir Plantations ; one hour and thirty-five minutes, 

 about sixteen miles straight from the cover we found 

 at. Nearly all the gentlemen, when the fox was 

 halloaed, made a point round the Hall for Stanton 

 Park, where Mr. Dashwood had covers ; foxes, you 

 see, often ran that line. They all got thrown out, and 

 Tom and his two whips and Captain Anson, they 

 would be the only ones up. Tom gave us another 

 rare thing the day after the Squire broke his leg 



