Giants of the Past 187 



Tom Sebright in Old Age at Milton Park o 



WE loved to stroll out with the old man and 

 the hounds into Milton Park, and by 

 judiciously leading up to her, induce him to talk 

 of " Relish," a name which he used to pronounce 

 with as much unction as Robert Hall was wont to 

 throw into " Mesopotamia " ; and we mischievously 

 got him to say it for the last time, just before we 

 bade him good-bye on the show ground at Yarm. 

 He was of those fine, sterling characters which well 

 repaid the study ; and the whole place and its 

 accessories seemed so exactly in keeping with him. 

 The rick-backed church, with its crooked wooden 

 belfry, the Fox Hounds sign nailed to the elm, the 

 straggling thorn clumps at the edge of the park, 

 over which, under a cold December sky the withered 

 clematis was hanging in rich tracery, like the veil 

 of a bride, the Nen creeping on its " lazy Scheldt "- 

 like course along the broad meadows of Overton, 

 the white sun-dial on the wall of the steward's 

 house, and the quaint intermixture of the martello 

 tower, with the thatch and the ivy at the kennels, 

 all blended so thoroughly with him, and his honest 

 pride of being part and parcel of an old English 

 home. 



The Druid [H. H, Dixon), 



Anthony Trollope as Fox-hunter .^> 



I GOT home in December 1872, and in spite of 

 any resolution made to the contrary, my mind 

 was full of hunting as I came back. No real 

 resolutions had in truth been made, for out of a 

 stud of four horses I kept three, two of which were 

 absolutely idle through the two summers and winter 



