NOTES TO THE 



Note 40, p. 83. 

 Tom Ranee has got a single oie. 



Tom Ranee came from Baron Rothschild to whip-in to the 

 Cheshire in 1830, and remained, through every change of Master 

 and Huntsman, for thirty-one years in that capacity, without aspiring 

 to the post of Huntsman. In the station of life in which he was 

 placed, no one ever did his duty better. I have seen him ride the 

 most unmanageable horses with rare nerve and temper, still keeping 

 his one eye open to detect, and his handy lash ready to reach any 

 riotous hound. Many a time in the course of a run have I been 

 beholden to him for his active assistance under a difificulty, and there 

 are others, I know, who would, if now alive, gratefully acknowledge 

 his services in the field. If after charging a fence you found yourself 

 on the other side planted in a pit (a mischance by no means un- 

 frequent in Cheshire), Tom Ranee was always at hand to pull your 

 horse out, or if discomforted by the loss of a stirrup-leather, Tom 

 was promptly at your side to touch his cap and proffer you one of 

 his own. 



On retiring from service in 1861, the sum of five hundred pounds 

 was raised and invested by the Hunt for his benefit. 



Note 41, p. 86. 



Drink to the land where this Evergreen grows. 



" This plant is only to be found in temperate climates. Provence 

 is its boundary to the South, and it reaches neither Sweden nor Russia 

 towards the North. Linnaeus lamented that he could hardly preserve 

 it alive in a green-house ; and so rare is it in many parts of Germany, 

 that Dillenius, their botanist, was in perfect ecstasy when he first 

 visited England, and saw our commons covered with the gay flowers of 

 the furze bush." — Phillips' Sylva Florifera. 



Note 42, p. 86. 



This strange match, so hastily made and so quickly decided, took 

 place on the Friday of the Tarporley Hunt week, 1854. The com- 

 petitors were Thomas Langford Brooke, of Mere, Esq., and John 

 Sidebottom, of Harewood, Esq. Davenport Bromley, Esq., was 

 Umpire. 



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