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continue to be so. They are kind and considerate 

 to every one, and as managers of foxhounds, one 

 good quality attends them — they have pretty good 

 accounts at their bankers ! 



"Nimrod" met Mr. Combe at the House 

 of Mr. Mills at Shellingford, and says of him. 



I can assert that he is as straightforward in the 

 evening as he is in the morning, and that he is one 

 of the best companions I have ever sat down with 

 in my life, full of animation and anecdote. 



Many sportsmen from the " Old Berkeley " 

 home country came with the master to hunt 

 in the new country ; Mr. Nicoll, Mr. Roberts, 

 and Mr. Batch, were mentioned as staying 

 at the " Crown," at Faringdon. After a gal- 

 lant attempt for two seasons to hunt his enor- 

 mous country; Mr. Combe in 1826 gave up 

 the Old Berks country and retired to his old 

 quarters at Rickmansworth, whence he con- 

 tinued to hunt the Old Berkeley until 1834. 

 He also continued to hunt the South Oxford- 

 shire country by arrangement with Lord Kin- 

 tore, during his lordship's mastership of the 

 Old Berks. In 1834 he gave up the Old Ber- 

 keley, but only to resume the reins again in 

 i^35> when he bought Osbaldeston's cele- 

 brated pack at Tattersall's for ;!^4,6oo. He 

 finally resigned in 1840. Mr. Harvey Combe 

 most strongly objected to people smoking in 



