210 HUNTING TOURS. 



after hounds ensures the necessary acquire- 

 ments of an accomplished hunter. 



To enumerate all the Salopians who have 

 singularly established their fame as masters 

 of hounds and sportsmen in their native 

 county and elsewhere would encroach on too 

 much space ; it is, therefore, imperative to 

 confine the subject to those immediately con- 

 nected with the Ludlow Hunt. Contem- 

 porary with the ever-celebrated Mr. Meynell, 

 whose enlightened tastes threw a halo of 

 refinement over the aristocratic plains of 

 Leicestershire, Mr. Childe, of Kinlet, then 

 in the full vigour of life, kept a pack of 

 hounds, with which he hunted this his native 

 country, and where he acquired that dashing 

 and daring style of riding previously unprac- 

 tised, for which he was so highly famed ; 

 but glowing with ardour for distinction in a 

 more fashionable and populous hemisphere, 

 he gave up his hounds, and in rival com- 

 panionship with his friend and neighbour, 

 Mr., but afterwards Lord, Forester, he went 

 into Leicestershire, where these two cele- 

 brated horsemen set the example of riding 

 to hounds which, from that time, it has been 

 the ambition of every first flight man to 



