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of tlie hounds. His succession to office, and his con- 

 tinuance in it, marked a period which will always be 

 remembered as perhaps the best for continuous good sport, 

 which had been seen in the country, more particularly the 

 nine seasons during which Stevens was huntsman. He 

 was widely known and greatly esteemed, and his loss was 

 felt alike by a large number of relations and friends, by his 

 tenants, to whom he had been a generous landlord, and by 

 the poor, to whom he had been a constant friend. — C. M. 



He died on the night of the 4th- 5th of June. He 

 came down to Eton, and was with myself and my brother, 

 the present Lord Willoughl^y, on the river till quite late at 

 night. He never seemed happier and jollier, and was just 

 like a boy at Eton again. It is the hajDpiest memory for 

 myself and brother to think of him as he was that night, 

 and always, the kindest and best of fathers. — W. 11. V. 



A CHANGE OF SPORT. 



As Mr. Jorrocks's jaunts were considered to be not out 

 of place as an addition to his hunting, I have copied from 

 my journal a few incidents which took place during my 

 summer rambles in Norway and Scotland. In 1862, 

 during the summer, I had very good fishing in Norway. 

 On our best day's fishing, three rods caught forty-three 

 salmon iii the river Stordal. At that time we paid 5/. each 

 a rod for forty-five miles of water, which was in later years 

 let to seven rods for 500/. each season. — C. M. 



My brother recalled to my memory lately a curious 

 incident which happened to him when out hunting at the 

 time we were at Oxford. He was riding a hireling belong- 

 ing to Charley Simmonds, and got his whip pulled out of 

 his hand by one of the growers in a fence, he did not stop to 

 pick it up, and was proceeding across the next field, when 

 he heard a friend roaring with laughter behind him. The 

 whip had been caught under the horse's tail, the immediate 

 effect being to cause him to close it tight down upon tlie 

 whip, and he was carrying it like a dog carrying a stick, 

 only the other end first. — 0. M. 



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