CHAPTER IX 



NORFOLK 



An old English Gentleman — Liberal Patron — Good Workman — Gift 

 Horse — Mr. Earey — Epsom Downs — Finished Gentleman — A 

 Week's Holiday — Stag Hounds — A Somersault : Pleasing Eesult 

 — Mournful Cavalcade — Strange Talk — Ludicrous Incident — 

 Turn-up between Two Dogs — Collision — A New Feature — The 

 Chancellor's Medal — Novel Title — A Pleasant Reception — 

 Contrast — A Field Marshal — Vain Attempt — Another Avocation. 



Among the numerous gentry Avho owned or occupied 

 .seats in this, the Western part of the county, was a person 

 whom my partner, in the exuberance of his gratitude and 

 respect, styled the King of Norfolk ; and a stranger would 

 have thought the title not ill-applied when he witnessed 

 the esteem he was held in by all classes. 



He had in early life been at the University of Oxford, 

 and was one of the founders of a society or club that 

 was of much advantage to the fraternity, providing for 

 them when laid up by accident, sickness, or old age. 

 This alone would entitle him to the praise and good word 

 of all right-thinking professors ; while those who came 

 more immediately under his ken, and felt the genial 

 warmth of his kind and generous nature, could not fail 

 to be imbued with a feeling of thankfulness for their lot 

 having been cast on a road that led to his hospitable 

 home. 



