216 iktngs of tfoe 1Ro&, IRifle, anfc (Bun 



It turned out that the animal had once attempted to 

 run at her, but she had lodged a charge of small shot 

 in his muzzle. 



Two young gentlemen once paid a visit to Holkham 

 in the summer time. The dinner hour was half-past 

 three, but the guests were not forthcoming. It was 

 eight in the evening before they put in an appearance, 

 and then looked uncommonly sheepish. At daybreak 

 they decamped without beat of drum. It transpired 

 that they had expressed a wish to see the church, and 

 applied to Polly, the keeper of the Church Lodge. On 

 their way thither one of them attempted to rob the said 

 keeper of a kiss. Luckily for them they were guests at 

 the hall, or she would have treated them as she used 

 to treat the poachers. She resorted to a milder punish- 

 ment ; while they were in the belfry admiring the 

 scenery, Polly turned the Church key upon them." 



Another remarkable gamekeeper at Holkham, of the 

 other sex, was John Hawkesworth, of whose eccentricities 

 the Rev. William Barker Daniel gives the following 

 account : 



" Hawkesworth never associated with, or spoke to any 

 person unless he was first addressed. He was very 

 penurious, and had accumulated a considerable fortune, 

 which he had hid from the fear of invasion, and his 

 death, at the age of seventy, was supposed to be 

 occasioned by depriving himself of sufficient nourish- 

 ment. Mr. Coke annually furnished him with sufficient 

 clothing, but his dress was of the most miserable kind, 

 and he always wore an old painted hat, patched over 

 with pieces of cloth. The liveries he had by him at the 



