ECHOES 



OLD COUNTY LIFE, 



CHAPTER I. 



Introductory — Masters of the Buckhounds and other Eminent 

 Sportsmen— Mowbray Morris, and Lord Southampton — 'Varsity 

 Races, Roger Pahiier and the Crimean Steeplechase — Professor 

 Neate — The Romance of Cheslyn Hall — Lord Chesterfield and 

 the Election of Speaker Abercrombie — Grant's Picture of the 

 Royal Hunt — Count D'Orsay : his Change of Clothes, his 

 Knife-spinning, and his Sketches. 



These ''Reminiscences" differ from others that have 

 hitherto been published, in being those, not of men Hke 

 Lord Malmesbury, Captain Gronow, the Hon. Grantley 

 Berkeley, Mr. Greville, and others who belonged to the 

 upper classes of society ; nor of legal luminaries, such as 

 Serjeant Ballantine or Mr. Montagu Williams ; nor of a 

 man renowned upon the stage or with the brush, but of 

 a fair representative of middle-class life who, in the 

 course of a busy career, has met many famous people, 

 and here truthfully records what he remembers about 

 them. I believe these records give a faithful picture of 

 the times in which I have lived ; and, while I hope they 



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