66 REMINISCENCES OF 



Forester was master and old Goosey huntsman, and 

 sometimes with the Quorn, with Lord SufBeld, 

 master ; Charles Tread well, huntsman. He bought 

 Sir Matthew White Ridley's hounds. It was not a 

 successful season, and at the end of it the bailiffs 

 came and seized the hounds, Lord Suffield being 

 bankrupt. Mr. Robertson of Lady Kirk bought 

 them, and engaged Tread well as his huntsman, 

 and hunted Berwickshire. 



We went to Norwich, and soon after our arrival 

 there was a sale of all Lord Suffield's things at Gun- 

 ton. Archie Little and I bought four guns, one of 

 which I have now. 



Our principal amusement was cricket, and there 

 was a capital club at Blickling, to which we went 

 once a week. We also started a coach. In the 

 winter we hunted with Lord Sondes and Sir Jacob 

 Astley. Chapelow was huntsman ; Harry Taylor 

 and Brett whips. 



In the year 1839 I got my first and only lesson 

 in gambling. We went to Newmarket Races, and 

 Little, Willoughby, Isaac and I posted up to London 

 to go to a " hell". We arrived about 10 P.M., and 

 went to the " Cocoanut Tree," either in Haymarket 

 or Waterloo Place. We sat down, Willoughby next 

 me, and rattled the dice, and called " Seven is the 

 main," but the dice never turned up right. I lost 



^25, and said to Willoughby, "This is d d bad 



fun I'll have no more of it". He said, "I agree 

 with you ". So we stopped and never played again, 

 and got our lesson cheap. We got into our chaise, 



