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trouble, and me such expense, to obtain. Lose not that 

 which, in fact, makes a middling horse a good one ; for I 

 fully agree with what I heard that fine sportsman, John 

 Warde, say, the other day, at the cover-side of the Pytchley 

 country, ' half the goodness of horses goes in at their mouths.' " 



" Will you favour us," said Mr. Raby to his guest, " with 

 the names of some others of the conspicuous sportsmen 

 who have been hunting in Leicestershire with Mr. Meynell 

 in your time ? " 



"With the greatest pleasure," answered Mr. Somerby. 

 " You will excuse my giving them as they present them- 

 selves to my recollection at the moment. There have 

 been amongst them The Duke of Orleans ; Lords 

 Maynard, Spencer, Sefton, Winchelsea, Harborough, 

 Stair, Craven, Robert Spencer, Charles Manners, Robert 

 Manners, Paget, Villiers, Egmont, Chatham, and Somer- 

 ville ; Sirs Carnaby Haggerstone, John Shelley, William 

 Gordon, Harry Featherstonehaugh ; General Tarleton, 

 Colonel Carter ; Messrs. Loraine Smith, Prince Boothby, 

 Charles Wyndham, Lambton, Ralph Lambton, Forester, 

 Cholmondeley, George Germaine, Martin Hawke, Jacob 

 Wardell, Lemon, Cradock, Thomas and Robert Grosvenor, 

 Goodhere, Norman, Arthur Paget, Conyers, Morant, 

 Assheton Smith, Pole, Saville, Musters, the two Heyricks, 

 John Hawkes, Lockley, Charles Meynell, Hugo Meynell, 

 junior, Orby Hunter, Rose Price, Peach, Boates, Robert 

 Montgomery, Berkeley Craven, Puleston, John Madocks, 

 Vanneck, Bennet, Graham, Harnes (of Glen), Nedham, 

 &c. &c. There are also some excellent sportsmen amongst 

 the graziers of this part of Leicestershire, and none better 

 than Deverell and George Henton. Neither must I omit 

 Ted Hodges of Leicester, a very conspicuous sportsman, in 

 every acceptation of the word ; as a judge of cocking, a 

 nonpareil. 



" Then, again, there is a new set just come among us 

 Lords Plymouth and Foley ; Sirs Henry Peyton, Stephen 

 Glynne, and Wheeler Cuff; Messrs. Rawlinson, the 

 Lindows (twin brothers, and capital hands), Rolleston, and 

 Frank Forester ; the two Bruens from Ireland (with as 

 many horses as would do for a country fair), Lloyd, the 

 dandy Welchman, Apperley, and Thomas Assheton Smith, 

 better known as ' the Tom Smith.' !; 



Here the conversation was interrupted (Mr. Egerton 

 was about to speak) by Frank exclaiming to his father, 



