lo A NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



Colonel Nesbit, the master of the Calcutta hounds, 

 hastened with others down to the beach to hear the 

 news. " There are new Ministers in," was the first 

 piece of intelligence. "Oh, hang the new Ministry!" 

 said the Colonel; "is Nimrod's Yorkshire Tour out 

 yet?" The only one of Nimrod's family who "took 

 after " him is the present Colonel Apperley, who went 

 out to India as a cadet, and for many years superin- 

 tended the remount for the cavalry. 



The latter part of Nimrod's life was spent in the 

 neighbourhood of Calais, where he resided for up- 

 wards of twelve years, having left England some- 

 where about 1S30. Here he wrote more than ever, 

 although chiefly on his reminiscences and experience,* 

 but still indulging in an occasional trip to the old 

 country. Conspicuous amongst these visits was the 

 Northern Tour — throuorh Scotland — which he made 

 at the instance of his fast friend the late Lord Kintore, 

 and that appeared in the " New Sporting Magazine" 

 a work which he joined soon after it was started. 

 Durinof his exile he also contributed in turn to the 

 "Sporting Review" and the "Sportsman;" amongst his 



* Nimrod told the writer, very shortly before his death, that he had 

 huuted with seventy-three or seventy-four different packs ot hounds. 



