A Sportsman 59 



The father of Batelle was a prominent shipping 

 merchant of Newburyport, Mass., in the earlier days 

 when that town was more prominent in extended 

 commercial affairs than now, and from this town 

 came several prominent men I have known: Caleb 

 Gushing, George Peabody, George Lunt, and others. 



Two sisters of Tom Batelle, Garafelia and Caro- 

 line, were the wives of the two Chickering brothers, 

 Thomas and Frank, sons of Jonas Chickering, the 

 inventor and large manufacturer of the Chickering 

 piano. All are gone of whom I write, and it would 

 seem that soon the reader and I will join the "in- 

 numerable caravan." 



An incident occurred at Upton which had a sequel 

 twenty-five years afterward, that I am reminded of. 

 The young wife of Booth's friend from Baltimore, 

 with her husband, were to accompany us one day on a 

 general party picnic we were jointly to give at a brook- 

 side a few miles from our hotel. Some were to go 

 in a large wagon, and the balance on horseback on 

 the somewhat motley collection of equines found by 

 Edwin in our vicinity. Mrs. Booth and Mrs. Brown, 

 the Baltimore wife, Edwin Booth, Dan Setchell, and I 

 were to go au cheval. It was with difficulty that we 

 found two ladies' saddles, and they were not particu- 

 larly attractive or efficient. But the two ladies were 

 determined to go mounted and were both accounted 

 good equestriennes. The wagon started off in ad- 

 vance, as there was some delay in getting on the 

 steeds, and as the last of all was mine and the one 

 preceding for Mrs. Brown, I assisted her to mount, 

 and everything seemed to be tight and complete, but 

 just as she started off, whipping up to overtake those 



