THE LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN 



names of some others of the conspicuous sportsmen who have 

 been hunting in Leicestershire with Mr. Meynell in your time ? ' 



' With the greatest pleasure,' answered Mr. Somerby. ' You 

 will excuse my giving them as they present themselves to 

 my recollection at the moment. There have been amongst 

 them — The Duke of Orleans; Lords Maynard, Spencer, Sef- 

 ton, Winchelsea, Harborough, Stair, Craven, Robert Spencer, 

 Charles Manners, Robert Manners, Paget, Villiers, Egmont, 

 Chatham, and Somerville ; Sirs Carnaby Haggerstone, John 

 Shelley, William Gordon, Harry Featherstonehaugh ; General 

 Tarleton, Colonel Carter ; Messrs. Loraine Smith, Prince 

 Boothby, Charles Wyndham, Lambton, Ralph Lambton, 

 Forester, Cholmondeley, George Germaine, Martin Hawke, 

 Jacob Wardell, Lemon, Cradock, Thomas and Robert Gros- 

 venor, Goodhere, Norman, Arthur Paget, Conyers, Morant, 

 Assheton Smith, Pole, Saville, Musters, the two Heyricks, 

 John Hawkes, Lockley, Charles Meynell, Hugo Meynell, junior, 

 Orljy Hunter, Rose Price, Peach, Boates, Robert Montgomery, 

 Berkeley Craven, Puleston, John Madocks, Vanneck, Bennet, 

 Graham, Harnes (of Glen), Nedham, etc. etc. There are also 

 some excellent sportsmen amongst the graziers of this part 

 of Leicestershire, and none better than Deverell and George 

 Henton. Neither must I omit Ted Hodges of Leicester, a very 

 conspicuous sportsman, in every acceptation of the word ; as a 

 judge of cocking, a nonpareil. 



' Then, again, there is a new set just coming among us — 

 Lords Plymouth and Foley ; Sirs Henry Peyton, Stephen 

 Glynne, and Wheeler Cutf; Messrs. Rawlinson, the Lindows 

 (twin brothers, and capital hands), Rolleston, and Frank 

 Forester ; the two Bruens from Ireland (with as many horses 

 as would do for a country fair), Lloyd, the dand}' Welchman, 

 Apperley, and Thomas Assheton Smith, better known as " the 

 Tom Smith." ' 



Here the conversation w^as interrupted (Mr. Egerton was 

 about to speak) by Frank exclaiming to his father, ' Oh, papa, 

 and has Mr. Somerby hunted in the Pytchley country ? Would 

 you ask him to tell us something about Dick Knight, whose 

 picture, representing him topping the park -pales on Contract, 

 our huntsman has got in his parlour ? ' 



' You unreasonable rogue,' said Mr. Raby ; ' I wonder what 

 you will ask next ? ' 



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