274 THE WARWICKSHIRE HUNT. [i8tH 



I was once riding a roan horse of Mr. Cassel's, and 

 came into Com])ton Yerney after a rather poor day. I was 

 introduced to a foreign friend of Mr. Cassel's, who looked 

 at my boots and breeches, and said, " You have been to an 

 execution, Monsieur." " No, Sir," I said, "we did not 

 kill. There was no scent ; the ground was too dry." 

 " My fi-iend means an excursion," said Mr. Cassel. " He 

 means you have been out hunting." Mr. Cassel lent this 

 same roan horse to his friend, Admiral Schroeder, to ride 

 on the Emperor of Grermany's staff at the great review at 

 Aldershot. When the band struck up, the roan horse 

 struck up also, and the Admiral, who was pen solide, fell 

 off. " How kind of you, Admiral," said the ready Emperor. 

 " You are the only one of my staff who has dismounted to 

 salute me."— W.'R. Y. 



It is said that on the first occasion when Mr. Cassel 

 and his foreign friends went out shooting in the " Eides " 

 at Compton Yerney, Eales, the keeper, called out " Bear 

 to the right," upon which one of the gentlemen put do-wm 

 his gun, ran to the nearest tree, and went up it. 



Another time Miss Anna Cassel said to one of the 

 guests before a shooting party : " You must not shoot a 

 fox here, Baron, it would be very dangerous." "Indeed, 

 Mademoiselle, do they attack you ? " 



The Hon. Harry Bourke, brother of the late Lord 

 Mayo, used to be a frequent visitor at Compton Yerney in 

 Mr. Cassel's tenancy. He was a welter weight, but a bold 

 and forward rider. Some of his Irish stories are well 

 remembered, c.f/. : He was talking to an Irish squireen. 

 "You should have been out yesterday with the Ward, 

 Captain. We had a mighty fine hunt, and such lepping. 

 Oi was riding my little mare — there she stands, Captain, 

 isn't she illigant ? — and we came to a dyke and bank. The 

 bank was so high." He went to the wall of the box, and 

 reached up as high as he could, (then he turned round and 

 looked at Mr. Bourke to see how much he would swallow,) 

 " and thafs wliere the irmhcr Iipf/an, and beyond there was 

 another dyke, as wide as an arum of the sea, and the little 



