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was in his last half hundred, and youth, weight, and loind 

 were on the debit side of the balance-sheet. 



" The best run I ever witnessed, when the gallant Dick 

 Burton hunted the hounds, was the following : — The squire, 

 Mrs. A. Smith, and Lord G. Bentinck, had ridden to 

 Stockbridge to see his Lordship's stud, then in training at 

 Day's. We met at Collingbourne Wood, found by the 

 keeper's house, went away at once by Biddesden Farm, 

 over Luggershall Common, leaving Predenham to the left, 

 to and by Shoddesden, across the large fields to Thruxton 

 Copse. Here, for the first time, was a check in a piece 

 of turnips, out of which our fox jumped up in view, and 

 we ran him, as a farmer not unhappily said, sword in 

 hand, across to Quarley, skirting the park there (where, 

 by the bye, poor Will Cowley, the whip, and a famous one 

 he was, got a roll over the rails), and iip to and through 

 Quarley Wood, out again in view up to the Boman 

 Camp, then across the flat to Cholderton Clumps ; and, 

 going down that steep pitch, the hounds positively seemed 

 to plough him up as they rolled him over, such a head did 

 they carry, and such a rush did they make. Nothing 

 could be more perfect than this fine run, both in result 

 and adjuncts. Every hound up, but not every horseman. 



Excepto, quod non simul essent, caetera laeti. — HoR. 



"During the hunting season, Andover was filled with 

 sportsmen, all of whom were welcomed to Ted worth hospi- 

 tality after an introduction. This was always insisted on 

 in consequence of the following misadventure : — 



" A certain lord, of considerable notoriety, who then re- 

 sided at Penton, was invited, and begged permission to bring 

 as a friend a * Captain Montagu^ which, of course, was 

 acceded to. 



"It so happened, that the late Lord George Bentinck was 

 staying at Tedworth, and it was observed, that when Lord 



