Il8 THE MERRY GEE-GEE 



not a particle of food inside him at the 

 autopsy-— he literally died of starvation 

 through being over-abstemious. Mr. 

 Chaplin hunted the whole country after 

 Lord Henry's death, and soon after that 

 it was divided. 



I quite agree with what Cusstance 

 says in his delightful book, that Mr. 

 Chaplin was the best welter-weight he 

 ever saw cross a country. He must 

 have ridden some seventeen stones in 

 those days, and never swerved from his 

 line an inch, always riding grand weight- 

 carriers. It*s very notable how a man 

 who can afford it, and is a judge, sets 

 up a special type of hunter as his fancy 

 dictates. 



Lord Lonsdale had my beau ideal 

 type of Leicestershire hunter, both for 

 himself and the Quorn-hunt servants. 

 Big reaching blood-horses, with bone 



