8 FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS 



the hunt was over, the Master, with his quaint 

 estabHshment, the deer and the hounds, all 

 trotted home together ; they seemed to be a kind 

 of happy family who lived on friendly terms and 

 were mutually pleased with one another, a bright 

 example of domestic life. For all these variations 

 of the chase, hunters of more or less value could 

 be procured from John Tubb, the widely known 

 dealer who resided opposite to the barrack gates, 

 a man with much resource of language and a 

 certain amount of notoriety peculiar to himself. 

 He was periodically out of favour with many 

 racecourse authorities, but as a universal provider 

 of horseflesh, and as a very original character, he 

 was well known to most Riflemen when stationed 

 at the depot. In that pleasing work. The Queen's 

 Hounds, Lord Ribblesdale, well acquainted with 

 his subject, devotes some pages to episodes in 

 John Tubb's career. 



At what pleasant country houses we used to 

 stay : Warnford Court, where lived Mr. and Mrs. 

 Edward Sartoris — she had been Adelaide Kemble ; 

 and there we frequently met her elder sister, 

 Mrs. Butler, who preferred to be still known by 

 her former name, Fanny Kemble. They were 

 the daughters of Charles Kemble and nieces of 

 Mrs. Siddons, and both were gifted with dramatic 

 talents and singular attractions. Adelaide had 



