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never been seen before, finishing at 

 Messingham, near the Trent. Mr. 

 Foljambe was master in those days — 

 quite a model of the fine old English 

 gentleman of the old school, not the 

 class who thought it the exclusive privi- 

 lege of their high office to *' blow a horn 

 and curse their friends," as an old adage 

 says, but the acme of courtesy and good 

 sportsmanship combined. One of his 

 ancestors used to hunt in a trap after he 

 was blind, and it is said that he knew the 

 note of every individual hound perfectly. 



Old Colonel Forester, the father of the 

 Melton hunt, if not of the Turf as well, 

 up to his decease last year, was not far 

 short of being blind, but he went great 

 guns to the finish, and led his second 

 horseman (who rode close up) a rare 

 dance, as he couldn't see what he was 

 riding at, and didn't care much, either. 



