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"Rush" episode — Lord Middleton succeeds Mr. Corbet after only 

 two days' interregnum — His popularity with the farmers — His 

 good nature — His supporters — His dislike for hunting reporters 

 — Abolishes the club at Stratford-on-Avon — Divides the old 

 Warwickshire country — Lord Althorp — Early gambling — His 

 enthusiasm — Hound-lore — His clumsiness on a horse — His 

 political career — Squire Forester, of Willey — Tom Moody, his 

 whipper-in — His country from the Clee Hills to the Wrekin — 

 The Beggarlybrook after-dinner run — Dibdin — Phoebe Higgs — 

 Parson Stephen — Mr. John Mytton — A mother's spoilt darling 

 — His first marriage and date of his decline — "Nimrod's" mis- 

 taken opinion of Mrs. Mytton — His strength — Denial that he 

 drank himself to death — Mr. Tom "Gentleman" Smith — His 

 Masterships — Succeeds Lord Chesterfield in the Pytchley country 

 — Hampered in finance — His literary success — His theory about 

 foxes, fur, and feather — His hound-lore — Cub-hunting in the 

 afternoon — His private history — His quarrel with Mr. Assheton- 

 Smith — Final meet at Broadhalfpenny — Sir Watkin Wynn — 

 He founds his kennel and stud regardless of money — Fire at 

 Wynnstay — Retires to the Continent — " Merry" John Walker — 

 Charles Payne — Sir Watkin's horsemanship — The seventh Duke 

 of Beaufort — His rheumatism — His hunting science — His political 

 career — His courtesy in the hunting-field — His obituary notices — 

 His theory about breeding hounds . ... page 97 



CHAPTER IV. 



FURTHER BIOGRAPHIES IN A NUTSHELL 



The Reverend John Russell — His early education — Exmoor hunting 

 career — His associates in the hunting-field — Dick Christian — His 

 unique position in the hunting-field — Taught riding by Stevenson 

 — His horsemanship — His opinion about Liecestershire hunters — 

 Reflections on his life — Mr. Dixon, "The Druid" — Ophthalmia 

 — Rugby days — Rugby Steeplechases — His life at Doncaster — 

 The Doncaster Gazette — Friendship with Mr. James White, 

 "Martingale" — "Old Mortality of the Turf"— His knowledge 

 of hunters and hacks — Conscientiousness as an author — Powers 

 of endurance — Death — Major Whyte-Melville — Lord Rosslyn's 

 epitaph — His riding abilities — His amiability towards man and 

 horse — His knowledge of hunting — His modesty — His generosity 

 — Mr. Apperley, "Nimrod" — Dual existence — Rode with 



