3o6 MEMORIES OF MEN AND HORSES 



Egremont Lascelles, who for a year or two was Master 

 of the York and Ainsty, in succession to Colonel Fairfax. 

 Of course, if a Master hunts hounds himself he has to 

 go accordingly, but with a good huntsman he can take 

 a much more comprehensive view of what is going on, 

 just as a general who knows well that the forefront of 

 the battle is not his place. 



Among others of the Lascelles family was the Hon. 

 Gerald Lascelles, who made a special study of hawking 

 and became the greatest authority on the subject. I 

 have always wondered that this sport has fallen into 

 desuetude, for it must have been a very delightful one, 

 and there are still many plains, wolds and downs on 

 which it could be carried on. The present Lord Hare- 

 wood is still, I am glad to say, in the land of the living, 

 so he does not quite come in as a memory, but in just 

 one way he does. A good many years ago I had been 

 made the victim of a mix-up by Messrs Weatherby, 

 having bought a mare called Pentecost at Albert Gate 

 and entered her for sale at the Etablissement Cheri, 

 Paris. Curiously enough, another mare named Pente- 

 cost, and purporting to be the same animal, was being 

 advertised for sale by Tattersalls Fran^ais the following 

 week, and the owner of this really bogus Pentecost took 

 proceedings against the Etablissement Cheri for having 

 advertised our mare. Nay, more, they succeeded in 

 getting a judgment for, I think, ^160 damages and 

 costs. 



Messrs Weatherby took our mare out of the Stud 

 Book and remained impassive. I must add that this 

 was prior to the present regime. 



I knew well that our Pentecost was the right one, and 

 that, as a matter of fact, she had been bought for France 



