CHAPTER XVI 



LIFE AT EDMONDTHORPE 



In the winter of 1900, for private reasons, which my brother 

 and his wife considered only too sufficient, they decided to 

 leave Healing Manor, where they had lived since the present 

 Lord Yarborough's marriage in 1887, and at that time a willing 

 purchaser, Captain the Hon. Gerald Portman, appearing, they 

 sold the house which they had made beautiful and comfortable, 

 and which had been their home for so many years. 



It was with infinite regret that my brother and his wife 

 turned their backs upon their beloved Lincolnshire, and the 

 " Brocklesby." No wonder, for every hound in those celebrated 

 packs, their pedigrees, points and prowess, was personally 

 known to my brother by his intimate and long years' study of 

 their Stud-book's history. 



The question, however, as to in which county of Great 

 Britain they should make their future home was no easy one 

 to settle, for directly it was known that J. M. Richardson and 

 Lady Yarborough had determined to leave Lincolnshire, letters 

 poured in on all sides from their friends, urging the advantages 

 of their several districts. They were thus assured of the 

 heartiest welcome wherever they chose to go, and friends in 

 various ultra-sporting counties assured them that their own 

 particular part of England could best appreciate my brother's 

 special sporting knowledge, show the finest sport over the 



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