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and I went ten or twelve miles south. This we did many 

 years. 



" David Edwards was Mr. Smith's first whip ; he hunts 

 the Cheshire pack at the present time. ^Villiam Cowley 

 was his second man. George Rutt rode Mr. Smith's second 

 horse, and John Fricker rode his third ; he generally had 

 out three horses a day. 



" His favourite horses when I first came to him were 

 Rory, Cracker, Election, Hailstone, Hungerford, Pantaloon, 

 Bochelle, Netheravon, Ham Ashley, and Fire King. About 

 the latter part of Mr. Smith's time, he rode a favourite 

 horse which he bought of Sir Richard Sutton, and called 

 Paul Potter. There was also a little chestnut mare which 

 was a great favourite. Mr. Smith called her Blemish. She 

 was a very nice animal. 



" Mr. Smith did not think so much about favourite hounds 

 as some gentlemen. He certainly had a few favourites, 

 such as Royalist, Conqueror, Purity, and Charity.* There 

 was also a favourite dog hound which we called Nigel. He 

 once found a fox in a spinney and killed it himself. We had 

 a stud hound, a Belvoir-bred dog, Bertram by name, a won- 

 derful good one. We now have an old dog. Nelson, which 

 l^rs. Smith wished me to keep as long as he lived, quite a 

 favourite of Mr. Smith. This hound would choose to go to 

 him, and did to the last, and was the only one Mr. Smith 

 knew at last. 

 • " I know but little of Mr. Smith's good runs, as I very 

 seldom went out with him ; but for ten or twelve years he 

 had excellent sport for such a nasty flinty country. I 

 must tell you that he had first-rate sport, by the number of 

 foxes killed in a season. We never began club-hunting 



* These hounds are represented around Mr. Smith, who is on Eob 

 Roy, in the picture by Saxby, presented to Mrs. Assheton Smith 

 by the county of Hants. The squire's likeness in this picture is, how- 

 ever, not so good as in that by Cooper, from which the frontispiece to 

 these Reminiscences has been engraved. 



