^8 LORD CARDIGAN. 



the same moment, clear the obstacle and gallop forward, 

 was a revelation of pluck and horsemanship. 



The Leader of the Light Brigade. 



Of Lord Cardigan, one of the straightest riders and 

 principal supporters of the Billesdon Hunt, I possess a 

 unique and early recollection. The hounds were running 

 to the south of the village of Norton in the direction of 

 Gaulby, my younger brother and self scampering after 

 them on foot, when, just as we were crawling between the 

 lower bars of a stiff ox-rail fence adjoining a large yew tree 

 at the corner of an old-fashioned garden, his Lordship 

 suddenly hove in sight, made straight for the fence, and 

 calling out to us to " sit still,"— or " keep quiet,"— the next 

 thing we became aware of was a horse and its rider 

 towering immediately above us, fortunately clearing the 

 fence and ourselves beneath ! 



