A NOTICE OF NIMROD. 



encouragement, bidding Mr. Lockliart go on. A 

 leading Meltonian confessed to having gone three 

 times through the run over Leicestershire before he 

 could put down the number ; and another reader, 

 fascinated by the description of the race for the 

 Derby, exclaimed, " This fellow dips liis pen in 

 magic ! for I can hear the horses breathe, and the silk 

 jackets rustle, as they go by me." 



Hitherto Nimrod had been regarded as rather a 

 class man ; but now they were all at him, and he wrote 

 frequently for "Fraser," for the "New Monthly," the 

 "Encyclopaedia Britannica," the "Morning Herald" 

 newspaper, and a variety of other publications. So 

 continually w'as he engaged, that the inconvenience 

 of living abroad became very great, and he returned 

 with his family to England in the beginning of the 

 year 1843. But, as he himself often said, this 

 was only like the hare doubling back to die in her 

 own country, for his decease occurred in Pimlico on 

 the 19th of the following May, after only a few days' 

 illness, and in the sixty-fifth year of his age. 



As a successful writer on sporting topics Nimrod 

 will always stand alone. He made the most of an 

 opening that can never occur again. He has 

 naturally had his followers, but how many attempts 



