200 THE GRAND NATIONAL. 



A ship may be ever such a good one, but where 

 would it be, we would ask. without the man at the 

 wheel ? His many friends down Lincolnshire way 

 were evidently of the same opinion when they deter- 

 mined to mark their appreciation of the able manner 

 in which Mr. J. M. Richardson had steered the 

 good ship Disturbance safely into port, in a manner 

 befittinor the occasion. 



And what more festive form could it take than a 

 banquet at Brigg, with its member, Sir John Astley, 

 in the chair, the " Mate " in his most Q-enlal mood as 

 befitted the occasion ? 



Suffice it to say that the inscription " Disturbance, 

 bnt no RoiL','' on the top of the menu proved some- 

 what of a misnomer, for we are told that the cheer- 

 ing that went up when the guest of the evening got 

 up on his hind legs to reply to the toast of his health 

 might have been heard — and probably was — in the 

 adjoining parish. 



