CHAPTER XIV. 



Visits Marham Hall and Sandringham — Dances the Old 

 Year out and the New Year in with the Princess 

 OF Wales — Manly Traits in the Young Princes — 

 Sorrow at Home — His Clerical Life — Tiverton 

 Old Boys' Meetings. 



Think you the chase unfits him for the Church ? 



Attend him there, and you will find his tones 

 Such as become the place ; nay, you may search 



Throug'h many counties from cathedral thrones, 

 And lofty stalls where solemn prebends perch, 



To parish aisles which are not cells of drones, 

 But echo the sweet sound of psalm and prayer, 

 And you will hear no voice more earnest there. 



H. S. Stokes. 



In the early autumn of 1877, Frank Goodall, 

 the Queen's huntsman, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Goodall, paid him a visit at Tordown ; and 

 on Tuesday, the 14th of August, Russell, who 

 was to meet his guests at Cloutsham Ball — 

 that being the first grand fixture for the 

 season, the opening day of the Devon and 

 Somerset Staghounds — varied his usual mode of 

 going to cover by taking a servant with him 

 and driving thither in a gig — a conveyance and 

 attendant expressly meant for Mrs. Goodall's 

 return to Tordown ; while, at the same time, he 

 led a spare horse to carry Goodall during the 



