^Nimrod ' 



as a first-rate cook can produce, and the wines are of the best quaUty), 

 and even trifles are regarded with a scrupulous observance. A small 

 print of the late Samuel Chiffney, on " Baronet," ^ was placed against 

 the wall by the Hon. George Germaine, so distinguished as a most 

 excellent sportsman, as well as a rider over a country or a race- 

 course — in the latter accomplishment perhaps scarcely excelled by 

 any gentleman jockey ; and although, since it was first affixed, 

 the room has undergone more than one papering and repairing, yet 

 the same print, in the same frame, and on the same nail^ still hangs 

 in the same place. 



" The rivets were not found that joinbd us first, 

 That do not reach us yet ; — we were so mixed, 

 We were one mass, we could not give or take 

 But from the same, for he was I — I he." ' 



There have lately sprung up two junior clubs at Melton. 



The one called the New Club, occupying the house formerly 



the residence of Lord Alvanley, opposite that excellent inn 



called the George Hotel, is composed of the following 



eminent sportsmen : — Mr. Errington, the master of the 



hounds ; Count Matuchevitch, Mr. Massey Stanley, and 



Mr. Lyne Stevens. The other, at the house of the late 



Sir Harry Goodricke, is known as * Lord Rokeby's Club,' 



and consists of Lords Rokeby and Eglinton, Sir Frederick 



Johnson, and Mr. Little Gilmour. The uninitiated reader 



would, perhaps, be surprised by an enumeration of the 



persons of rank, wealth, and fashion, who, during months 



of every year, resign the comforts and elegancies of their 



family mansions for a small house in some town or village 



of Leicestershire — to the eye of any one but a sportsman, 



1 Baronet was a celebrated racer, belonging to George the Fourth when 

 Prince of Wales. 



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