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whenever the army changed quarters in the Penin- 

 sula ; and later still with Burdett, Whitbread, 

 Canning, and Romilly, as the line-hunters in St. 

 Stephens, 



The sport of all sport was reserved for the day, 

 When out of a bag they turned Lord Castlereagh. 



The Druid [H. H. Dixon). 



Lord Sefton ^^> <:> .,iS> 



WHEN Lord Sefton retired from the sporting 

 world, it lost one of its brightest stars. The 

 splendour of his establishment gave to spectators 

 more the idea of an imperial hunting party in a 

 foreign country than that of an English pack of 

 fox-hounds. It brought to our recollection Dido's 

 hunting party to the godlike yLneas. If the covert 

 was accessible to a carriage, he always appeared 

 in his barouche-and-four, accompanied by several 

 others ; and ladies were often of the party, though 

 they never quitted the carriages. His hounds were 

 perfect, and well they might be so. The celebrated 

 John Ravan hunted one pack ; and the no less 

 celebrated Stephen Goodall [afterwards many years 

 huntsman to Sir Thomas Mostyn] hunted the 

 other, both pupils of Mr. Meynell. 



Mr. Beckford observes, that were he obliged to 

 have either a good huntsman and a bad whipper-in, 

 or a bad huntsman and a good whipper-in, he 

 should decidedly prefer the latter. Of what impor- 

 tance then must he have considered a good 

 whipper-in ; and what advantages must Lord 

 Sefton's hounds have possessed in having two such 

 whippers-in as Joe Harrison and Tom Wingfield, 

 besides other assistance ; for a feeder was always 



