Viscount Maiden 



how well everything was done ; the only fault that could 

 possibly be found with the noble Master being that in his 

 good-nature, he was inclined to be too lenient towards some 

 of the London division, whose room was often preferable to 

 their company. 



Indeed, the only occasion in which we remember hearing 

 my lord fairly let himself go was once when, having found a 

 fox in the gorse at Newberries, the hounds were streaming 

 across Porter's Park, when a lot of excited cockneys out for 

 a day's splashing, galloped in amongst them, scattering the 

 pack in all directions. 



" Let 'em have it ! my Lord ! Let 'em have It !" screamed 

 Goddard Morgan, frantic with indignation. And, to do him 

 justice, Lord Maiden followed his huntsman's advice to the 

 letter, displaying, in doing so, a command of the English 

 language, pure and undefiled, that we really did not give him 

 credit for possessing. 



They were a great nuisance these sportsmen from town, 

 especially when they scented anything in the shape of a Hunt 

 breakfast, as the late Mr. Michael Thomas Bass, who had 

 taken Newberries for a term, once found to his cost. Having 

 been in the habit of entertaining the Meynell Hunt at breakfast 

 whenever they came to Rangemore, his place near Burton-on- 

 Trent, he thought to do the same at Newberries, and this 

 coming to the ears of the cockneys, and the meet in question 

 being within easy distance of London — only fourteen miles 

 indeed — they not only came down in force themselves, but 

 brought their wives and their sisters, their cousins and their 

 aunts along with them ; the collection of horses and vehicles 

 of all sorts stationed outside the mansion, whilst their various 

 owners of both sexes laid siege to the good things therein, 

 being something to remember. 



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