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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 431, 13 February 1909, Page 7

,'■'-■ Among his exporiments of fancy, the Earl of Orfortl, a . famous agriculturalist of tlie time Goorpf IIIi : known .(is the Fnther of the sport of Coursing, took, it: into |iis head to drive four red deer in'a phaeton, and these he had.reduced ..to perfect discipline for. short journeys on the road j but, unfortunately; as he was one dny driving to. Newmarket, their ■ ears : were saluted with tho cry, of a pack of hounds, which soon, after, crossing the road in- the rear immediately caught scent of the fonr-in-hand.: In vain did; his lordship exert; his charioteering skill; in vain did his grooms endeavour to'ride before, them;.reins, trammels,' and the weight of the carrinse had no effectoff they went with the celerity of. a whirlwind, and the modern' phaeton had nearly :met, the fate , of.vhie namesake.. ' Luckily. however,.> his V lbrrislii|) had been accustomed to drive them.to the Unm Inn at Newmarket, which was near at hand, and he reached the ynrd before the pack cnmeiip. Thnt occiirrence cured hi« lordship's passion for deer