( I70 ) 



THE GREAT PRESENTATION DAY. 



UR noble and popular Master, Lord Daisyfield, 

 having entered upon his twenty-fifth year of 

 office, the question was set on foot (by our 

 Reverend Chaplain the Bishop of Soda and B, if we mis- 

 take not ; if it wasn't he, it was Tom Chirpington) 

 whether now was not the time for the members of his 

 hunt to show their appreciation of his qualities as a 

 sportsman, and the liberal manner in which he had 

 hunted the county for so many years free of cost, by pre- 

 senting him with some memento worthy of the occasion. 

 It speaks volumes for the noble lord's popularity, 

 when we mention that the proposal met with the heartiest 

 approval by everybody both high and low. The next 

 question to be considered was what form the proposed 

 testimonial was to take. Each subscriber, of course, had 

 his own notion as to what it should be, and was intensely 

 disgusted if his idea was not adopted. One proposed 

 one thing, someone else another. Mr. Benjamin Bobbin 

 said a service of plate would be the very thing, in his 

 'umble opinion, for his '' lordship to 'and down to his 

 successors as a hare-loom'' a proposal which his friend 

 Charles Wildoats, now rami de la maison, at once 

 knocked on the head with the remark that my lord had 

 already got more of that commodity than he knew what 

 to do with. Someone else proposed a shield for his 

 sideboard ; another proposed a centrepiece for his 

 dining-table ; whilst Mrs. Mountjoy Matchum (this is 



