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them.' Most of them have been on the estate since the 

 Pelhams first acquired it ; some of them date their 

 holdings from even before that time. Hence that lo)'al 

 feeling between landlord and tenant, which exists in a 

 degree unequalled in any other domain in England. 



In illustration of the good feeling prevailing between 

 Lord Yarborough and the farmers on his estates, Mr 

 Delme Radcliffe gives the followinL; anecdote : — 



' I am informed on the indisputable authority of an 

 intimate friend, who was well acquainted with the late 

 Lord Yarborough, that his lordship was in the constant 

 habit of making compensation to all the farmers of the 

 country over which he hunted, who could lay claim for 

 any injury done to their crops. After a very wet 

 season, he sent for one farmer in particular, the pro- 

 prietor of a field by the side of a favourite covert, to 

 which, owing to the scarcity of foxes in other parts of 

 the hunt, they had been obliged to have constant 

 recourse. At the end of the season this field was 

 literally destroyed, to all appearance — not a vestige of 

 a blade of wheat being visible, and the soil resembling 

 that of a muddy lane. " I have sent for you," said Lord 

 Yarborough to the farmer, " to offer you the fair value 

 of the wheat field, which was so trampled upon last 

 season that I fear you must have been wholly dis- 

 appointed of your harvest." " On no account, my lord," 

 replied this true specimen of an English farmer, " upon 

 no account can I consent to take a farthing of remunera- 

 tion. So far from the disappointment, for which I was 

 prepared, never in any previous year have I had so good 

 a crop as has been reaped this harvest in that very field, 

 which at the close of the hunting season looked truly 

 unpromising enough." I am afraid Mr Delme Radcliffe 



