JACK GODDARD. FRANK GOODALL. I33 



Review' at the time. Both Jim BaiUie and Frank Sutton 

 were intimate friends of my father ; the first named 

 presented him with a delightful arm chair, which I still 

 possess. They have both gone, alas ! to the ' great beyond,' 

 but I am happy to say Mr. Thorp is still going strong ; 

 thus exemplifying, so far as this picture is concerned, the 

 truth of the old saying in medio tutisshnus ibis. ! ! ! 



One more illustration I enclose which you may or may 

 not think worthy of reproduction.''^ * It is a poor thing but 

 mine own,' all except the heads, which are photographs. I 

 perpetrated it some forty years ago. On the left are Mr. 

 Charles Arkwright and Jack Goddard, the first man who 

 ever compassed the stiff Welland Vale, so it was said. No 

 cheerier huntsman or harder rider ever presided over 

 hounds. He left Tailby for the Quorn in 1862, when 

 Frank Goodall, whose photograph I also enclose, succeeded 

 him as huntsman. In the forefront is the late Mr. William 

 Hay, of Bowden Hall, one of the many who placed his 

 home at Colonel Anstruther Thomson's disposal in the 

 celebrated Waterloo run of February 2nd, 1866. I was 

 myself out on that memorable day with the Pytchley, and 

 saw the start of it, and well remember the ovation accorded 

 to the gallant Master when he reached the Hunt Ball at 

 Market Harborough, at 12-30 the same night. On the 

 extreme left is my uncle (by marriage). Captain Boultbee, 

 who hunted from Kibworth Hall from 1857 to 1861, when 

 Mr. Hunt (number three from the left) went to reside there ; 

 and in the middle of this group is the smallest, yet greatest 

 of them all, my valued friend Mr. William Ward Tailby. 



I must now bring this long-winded effusion to a con- 

 clusion. I can only hope it may be of some little interest 

 to those who, like myself, are laudatores tempovis acti. Any- 

 how if it trenches on what you may have already placed on 



* Much regret printers found picture too large to reproduce, and on a small scale 

 the individual members of the group would have been quite indistinguishable. — 



F. P. DE C. 



