26 DUTCH JEW. 



as I still constantly hunted with the 

 Hambledon, and sometimes with the Hamp- 

 shire hounds. Here I cannot help re- 

 lating a most ludicrous incident I wit- 

 nessed. 



The master of the Hambledon hounds 

 at that time, however strange it may 

 appear, was a wealthy Dutch Jew, 

 partaking very much of the Dutch 

 style of build, being short, thick, and 

 round, as his mind did of the peculiar 

 propensities of our people^ as the following 

 anecdote will show : 



Giving a dinner one day to the 

 neighbouring gentry, at which he made 

 a great display, "according to the cus- 

 tom of the Jews," one of his guests, the 

 master of the H.H.* than whom a 

 better sportsman, or a kinder master 

 or a gentleman more respected never 

 lived in the county, accidentally broke 



* Truman Villebois, Esq. 



