Reminiscent 



German language, all but missed their train, with the result 

 that but for an intelligent foreigner, who spoke English and 

 came to the rescue just in time, they would probably have been 

 a week doing the journey. Neither shooting nor fishing ap- 

 pealed to him in the slightest degree — the former he said made 

 his head ache — our friend of late years when hunting was over 

 devoted the whole of his time to golf, at which he quickly 

 attained great proficiency, so much so that the year before his 

 death he was unanimously elected president of the golf club at 

 Overstrand, near Cromer, where at a charming residence, called 

 the "Corner House," he and Lady Yarborough had made 

 their home for some little while past during the summer 

 months. 



To say that he was delighted when, at the instance of his 

 friend General Brocklehurst, he was appointed Field Master of 

 the Cottesmore Hounds is hardly the word. Of this I was a 

 witness, as he had paid me a flying visit in town that very day, 

 and it was on meeting the General quite by chance the same 

 night, on alighting from the train, that the latter told him that 

 he had just been appointed Master of the Cottesmore, and 

 counted on his (Maunsell's) support as Field Master. The 

 latter wrote straight off to me the same night to impart the 

 good news. With what zeal he entered into his new duties 

 goes without saying. Suffice it to say that never was the term 

 "a labour of love" more applicable than in this instance. 



How, when after by sheer hard work he had managed to 

 get everything in shipshape order in readiness for the coming 

 season, he was seized with the illness which, in spite of the 

 good fight he made, was to lay him low at last, we know only 

 too well, 



In a letter written to myself very soon after the commence- 

 ment of the hunting season by one of the best-known ladies 



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