32 REMINISCENCES OF A SPORTSMAN. 



CHAP IV. 



SPORTSMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL. — CELEBRATED MEN OF NORFOLK, 



" Im "Wald, imd auf der Haide 

 Da such ich meine Freude, 

 leh bin ein Jagermann ; 

 Den Wald und Forst zn hegen, 

 Das Wiklpret zu erlegen, 

 Das est, was mir gefallt." * — German Song. 



Perhaps the reader may derive some amusement from 

 a notice of a keen and excellent old sportsman, whom I 

 met with by chance in Norfolk, about the year 1804. 

 Being at that time on half-pay as a major of hussars, my 

 time was chiefly occupied in field sports and in the 

 cultivation of a small farm in the parish of Billing- 

 ford. One delightful morning, in the month of May, 

 I was strolling along the banks of the river Wensom, 

 which runs down to Norwich, listening to the sweet 

 notes of the blackbird, thrush, and various other small 



* " Through the woods and meadows bright, 

 There I take my sole delight, 



An eager s^xirtsman I ; 

 To search the forest wild, to find 

 And hunt the roebuck and the hind. 



There does my pleasure lie. 



