106 Seventy Years a Master. 



there is but little doubt that Biggleswade as 

 a sporting town has seen its day. 



When you take such families as the Lind- 

 sells, Archdales, Taddys, Burnetts, Powers, 

 Barnetts, Hoopers, and others, you can then 

 see, now that they have all paid their last 

 tribute to hunting, that it would indeed be 

 hard to fill the places they held in supporting 

 and upholding the glories of the Chase. And 

 one cannot help looking back to the old days 

 with a certain amount of regret, when one 

 thinks what Biggleswade could at one time 

 produce, and what it does at the present. 



