6 Random Recollections of the 



after surviving its birth but a short time, 

 being sent to the British Museum, where it 

 is, I believe, to be found at the present time. 



The parson was an eccentric character, and 

 it was related how during the harvest on 

 a Sunday, whilst his primitive choir were in 

 full blast over the Old Hundredth, he might 

 occasionally be seen casting up the measure- 

 ment of different patches of reaping which 

 his Irishmen had completed the night before. 



After the reverend gentleman's death, 

 when the sale took place it was a caution 

 to those who sought to get their purchases 

 home. When they entered the fields to 

 claim their own away went the animals, both 

 ends up, to the four winds, more like the 

 wild herds of Chillingham than sober minded 

 milchers, many of them not being secured 

 for days after, until some quiet old cows had 

 been taken to look them up, and in a few 

 cases they had to be shot. 



x\mongst other field sports coursing was 

 much in vogue with the well-to-do farmers, 

 several of them keeping a brace or two of 

 greyhounds. They frequently met together, 



