Captain Wentworth Hope- Johnstone 



" The Driver," to the great amusement of his brother officers, 

 arrived one night at barracks with a huge bell, which he 

 managed to walk off with from a railway station where he had 

 been kept waiting, concealed under his great coat. The trophy 

 in question is now in daily use as a dinner-bell at the house of 

 a member of the family, by whom it is regarded as one of his 

 most cherished possessions. 



CAPTAIN WENTWORTH HOPE-JOHNSTONE 



(Introduction by Finch Mason) 



On arrival at the Adelphi at Liverpool, late in the day preced- 

 ing the spring meeting of 1873, I found the place deserted; the 

 only arrival as yet, the porter informed me with a grin, being 

 a Scotch gent whom, he added, I should find in the smoking- 

 room, where he had been drinking sherry and smoking un- 

 ceasingly — "like one o'clock" was the expression used by the 

 proud young porter — "the 'ole of the blessed afternoon." 



Tempted alike by curiosity and a desire to smoke a cigar 

 on my own account by way of killing time until the arrival 

 of my friend from Lincoln, I accordingly wended my way to 

 the smoking-room, where, reclining in an armchair, with his 

 long legs on another, a half-emptied decanter of sherry at his 

 elbow, and a pipe in his mouth, was a great, gaunt, bearded 

 Scotchman who, apart from the Glengarry cap which covered 

 his head, could not possibly be mistaken for anything but 

 what he was, viz. a Highland gamekeeper, and a very fine 

 specimen too. 



The combined influence of the sherry and no doubt a 



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