A NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



educated up to the position he was destined to occupy 

 than Charles James Apperley. He was the second son 

 of one Mr. Thomas Apperley, a gentleman of good 

 Herefordshire family, who, from his attainments 

 as a scholar, had been selected as tutor to the Sir 

 Watkin Wynn of that time, and hence his eventually 

 settling at Plas-gronow, in the county of Denbigh, 

 where Nimrod was born in 1778. Noticeably enough, 

 the father enjoyed some literary repute, as he was the 

 author of a book of " Moral Essays " which would 

 appear to have been very favourably received. As his 

 son said of him — " he corresponded with Doctor 

 Johnson, read Greek before breakfast, and, being him- 

 self a scholar, he fondly hoped he should have made 

 one of me ; but in the weakness of his affection, being 

 unable to say 'no,' his hopes were blasted. He 

 suffered me to follow fox-hounds in a red coat and 

 cap, like puss in boots, before I was twelve years old." 

 There is no doubt, though, that young Apperley was 

 well grounded at home both as a scholar and as a 

 sportsman, and in due course he proceeded to Rugby, 

 where his own natural taste for the classics was further 

 •developed, with all proportionate profit hereafter. 

 But there was some " devil " in the boy, and, as Sir 

 Richard Puleston said of him and another lad, as they 



