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went with the hounds to Lord Lonsdale's kennel, at Cottes- 

 more : he gave Mr. Smith one day. On Saturday, the 

 11th, we met at Owston Wood, and had a good day's sport, 

 but got beaten. We had very large fields out every day. 

 On Monday, the 13th, I .started \Yith the hounds back to 

 Mr. Drake's kennel ; and on the 14th reached Tedworth. 

 I had not much rest." 



Dick Burton adds the luliowiug particulars respecting his 

 master's and his own career in Leicestershire: "I lived 

 with Mr. Smith at Quorn ten years. I left him Veiore he 

 left Quorn. I then went to live with Mr. Osbaldeston, and 

 stayed with hini twelve years ; and then I came back again 

 to Mr. Smith at Penton.* I lived with him alcogeuier 

 twenty-two years. The following horses were ?-[r. Smith's 

 favourites when he hunted Leicestershire: — ..iini-ter, 

 Lazarus, Tom Thumb, Eobin Hood, Shacabac, Gifr, 

 Agonistes, Penknife, Gadsby, jSTe'vmarket, Old Jack-o'Lan- 

 tern, Young Jack-o'Lautern, Fitch, and Charlotte Lantern. 

 I do not know what were his best horses in Lincolnshire. 

 There has nob been so good a sport? li, an at Quorn since Mr. 

 Smith left, although 2\lr. OsbaldestoD was a first-rate sports- 

 man, and I think had one of the best packs of hour.ds I 

 e^er saw or followed over any country : they were as stout 

 as the day v/as long, there was no tiring them. The grey 

 horse that I stand by, in the picture painted by Mr. Fer- 

 n^ley, was called The Big Grey. In Mr. Ferneley's small 

 picture at Tedworth, my brother Will is without his coat, 

 and I think stands with a pair of couples in his hand. 

 .Manager t (the hound with him) was heavier than Bill 

 was at the time. 



* Dick Burton first came to Mr. Smith in 1807, when quite a lad. 

 He once met with a severe accident, a gentleman and his horse coming 

 violently in contact with him, just as he was close upon his fox. 



+ " Manager was so fast a hound, that they buckled a shot-belt round 

 bis neck and filled him three parts full of boiled lights, but he defied 

 them and their handicaps."— (StV/c and Scarlet, p. 280.) Mr. Ferneley 



