MR. THOMAS PARRINGTON. 



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though time must roll on, though changes must come, and 

 though the evolution in sport, and particularly fox-hunting, 

 " the sport of all sport," is by no means at end, the name of 

 Parrington will ever be writ large upon the pages of Northern 

 hunting history in letters of gold. With but little alteration, 



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is not the description of one of Washington Irving's sporting 

 Yorkshire characters remarkably applicable to our veteran ? : 

 " He has lived amongst horses and dogs the greater part of a 

 century ... he knows the pedigree of every famous hunter, 

 and has bestrid the great grandsires of some of them. He 

 can give a circumstantial detail of every fox-hunt for the 

 last sixty or seventy years. All the present race have 

 grown up under his eye." He is one of the last of a disappear- 

 ing genus to which we owe more than some of us are willing 

 to admit. 



