30 REMINISCENCES, ETC. 



of. Botli horses at lengtli fairly stopped, but the Clipper 

 held out the longer of the two. Lindow always stood up in 

 his stirrups when the pace was most severe : this, accord- 

 ing to Nimrod, although it has an awkward appearance, 

 tends very much to relieve the rider. " I have seen," 

 writes Dick Christian,"' " those two Rawlinsons from 

 Cheshire ride wonderfully in the vale. There was no beating 

 them. It put Goosey (the Duke of Rutland's huntsman) 

 quite out to see them going as they did." 



Sir Harry Goodricke had the Quorn for two seasons, and 

 was just entering on his third when he died, 21st September, 

 1833, at Ravensdale Park, county of Louth, Ireland, of a 

 cold caught whilst otter-hunting. He was then in his 

 37th year. Sir Harry was perhaps the most popular master 

 of hounds ever known in England. He received no sub- 

 scription, and is said to have spent £18,000 in his two 

 seasons, inclusive of the new kennels at Thrussington, on 

 which he expended .£6,000. He had two famous horses, 

 the Old and the Young Sheriff. He was painted by 

 Ferneley on the latter, with the hounds in full cry. Young 

 Sheriff was bought in at Tattersall's for 400 guineas. The 

 following are the chorus and one of the stanzas of the song 

 written at Quorn in 1831, to celebrate his taking the 

 mastership of the hounds : 



"Then round with the bottle and let us not tarry, 

 While we hail, while we honour, the man of our choice ; 

 In a bumper come pledge us — The gallant Sir Harry, 

 Whom we love in our hearts, as we hail with our voice. 



Other masters we've had in the days of our glory, 

 Osbaldeston and Sefton, Tom Smith and the Grseme (Graham), 

 Southampton the last, not the least in the story, 

 Giving Melton its mainspring, and Leicestershire fame." 



Mr. Smith used to say that the two best runs he had in 



* "Silk and Scarlet," p. 50. 



