ANECDOTES OF CARTER. 1G7 



and all at once flung outside ; when an officious farmer 

 cracked a whip in their faces. "What are you doing?" 

 said Carter. " I saw a hare break just before at that spot," 

 he replied. " Pray let them alone," said George ; " they 

 Lave noses, and what is their use if they cannot distin- 

 guish?" In the meantime the hounds, after one flash 

 round, settled on their fox, and a good run was the result. 

 Had he listened to the farmer, this chance would have 

 been lost, as the fox had slipped away before he saw 

 the hare. 



One or two more anecdotes of George will not be 

 inappropriate. He was sitting with Will Long and Tom 

 Sebright, enjoying the fun at Stockbridge races, when a 

 notorious fox-killing keeper, named Watkins, thus addressed 

 him : " Come, Mr. Carter, I will spend five shillings on a 

 bottle of wine, if you will drink it with me." " I will 

 spend half a crown on a rope," replied George, " if you will 

 promise to hang yourself on the next tree." Jack Fricker 

 and W. Bryce are the present whips under Carter (1860). 

 Jack is a very promising sportsman, and when George was 

 ill, did credit to the horn on his saddle. Indeed, if there is 

 anything in education. Jack could not escape being eminent, 

 inasmuch as from a child he was under Dick Burton and 

 Mr. Smith, and afterwards took his degree, a first class, 

 under Geor^^e Carter, a combination of advantages which 

 might well be envied by the most aspiring youth at our 

 universities, or by the most distinguished pupils of old 

 Meynell. 



George Carter was always a famous runner and dancer, 

 and used particularly to distinguish himself at the servants' 

 Christmas Ball, given every year at Tedworth. He could, 

 they said, put more steps into a figure than any man within 

 the limits of Tedworth Hunt. He performed an extraor- 

 dinary feat, when a young man, in the following manner : — 

 An overflow of the river had enabled the deer to escape out 

 of some gentleman's park in Warwickshire, with whom 



