The Life of a Great Sportsman 



attention, he never allowed them and their attendant worries to 

 detract from his interested good fellowship with us, and our far 

 less important doings. 



Another interesting personality who visited us at Limber 

 was Maunsell's old college chum, the late Cecil Legard, who 

 afterwards became the Rev. Cecil Legard, that wonderful sur- 

 vival of the genuine sporting parson, who with the surplice, 

 metaphorically speaking, over his hunting kit, makes the best 

 of both worlds. An extraordinary good judge of a horse and 

 an enthusiastic lover of them as well, I believe he has never 

 been known to be taken in over a deal. He certainly never was 

 when I knew him in the old days, and I expect advancing years 

 had, if anything, made him a still more competent judge of 

 both horse and hound. What a wonderful clerical hunting 

 " get-up " was his ! A dark-grey coat and breeches of the 

 latest and most perfect cut, with black boots which left nothing 

 to be desired in shape, fit or style, was surmounted by a low- 

 crowned hard felt hat, which, while corresponding to the 

 correct clerical hunting attire, was to all appearance as com- 

 fortable to its wearer as the old-fashioned hunting-cap had the 

 reputation of being. 



Young Lord Aberdour and Lord Wodehouse, now re- 

 spectively Earls of Morton and Kimberley, both Cambridge 

 chums of Maunsell's, also visited us and came several times to 

 Limber, making themselves quite at home with us, exempli- 

 fying their aristocratic descent by their extra charm of good 

 fellowship, which surely is the only true hallmark, the gold of 

 good breeding. 



Two well-remembered friends, also, are the two Goldneys — 

 " Prior and Jack," as they were in those days — now respec- 

 tively Sir Prior and Sir John Goldney. They came more 

 especially to visit my eldest brother, Prior Goldney having 



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