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tremely well auited to the country, aud getting cleverly over 

 every description of fence, but did not show the blood we 

 should have thought requisite to gallop over the Hamp- 

 shire Downs." Doubtless Mr. Smith, who was familiar with 

 both countries, had selected the horses for his Leicestershire 

 and Lincolnshire visits which he well knew to be best 

 suited to the requirements of each country. 



Mr. Greene,* of Rolleston, whose guest Mr. Smith was on 

 this occasion, had frequently followed him close in Leicester- 

 shire, and was a pupil every way worthy of his master. 

 An excellent run has been recorded by the author of " Silk 

 and Scarlet," from Botany Bay, skirting the Coplow, but 

 without touching it, when they killed the fox in a field near 

 a covert at Schlawson windmill ; the distance was thirteen 

 miles. Mr. Smith rode Gadsby, and Mr. Edge, Gay man. 

 Besides these two, only Mr. Greene, on Sysonby, and 

 Fryatt, of Melton, on Hastings, were up. JMr. Smith 

 pulled his watch out, and five minutes elapsed before any 

 other horseman was up. Fryatt sold Hastings the next 

 day for 400 guineas. "On another day," says Dick 

 Christian, " Mr. Greene's horse, Sysonby, gave Mr. Smith 

 and Shacabac a rare showing up in the Harborough 

 country ; it was a strange, wild day ; they found in a patch 

 of wild gorse near Gumley. The wind blew the scent, and 

 the hounds flashed over it. Mr. Smith rode Gadsby first, 

 and then Shacabac. They had an hour and twenty minutes, 

 racing all the way : there was only himself and Mr. 

 Greene left. All on a sudden Shacabac starts a grunting 

 and stops. JMr. Greene got off Sysonby, and said, * You 

 get on my horse, they are running to their fox.' On Mr. 

 Smith v/ent with Sysonby, and just at that time Mr. 

 Greene fell in with Gadsby, and got on him and finished. 

 There they were at the kill, with the same horses they had 



* This excellent and highly respected sportsman lias died since the 

 second edition of these Ileniinisceuces was published. 



