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no keener sportsman, and tew better horsemen, ever crossed 

 a horse ; yet, strange to say, he gave up riding hard when 

 quite a young man, after going for some seasons with the 

 best of them. A light weight, and an elegant horseman, it 

 was a sight to see him sailing over a country in that 

 effortless style which is so rarely to be found, even in the 

 first flight. Quite as keen, though heavier and perhaps not 

 quite so elegant in .style, was his brother, Mr. George Edwin 

 Lascelles, who, I am glad to say, is still amongst us, taking 

 as lively an interest in the sport of kings as he did in the 

 days of his youth. A good man, especially on a rough horse, 

 Mr. Lascelles in his younger days could 



'Tame the wild young one, inspirit the old; 

 The restive, the runaway, handle and hold.' 



and in its proper place it is told of him how he got to the 

 end of a famous run on a kennel pony. 



The ' Cheeryble Brothers*' were very keen, and no men 

 were more popular in the Bramham Moor country than these 

 warm-hearted and charitable gentlemen, who were as well 

 known by the title I have given them as they were by their 

 patronymic of Cooper. The brothers were well nigh in- 

 separable, and they hunted a great deal. But into the Wighill 

 country they would not come. Over the stone-walls and 

 fences of the west they could do well enough, but the wide 

 and deep drains of the Ainsty were to them anathema. 

 It is related of them that on one occasion they got into 

 the Wighill country in spite of themselves. Where hounds 

 met that morning I am not able to say, but the fox, with 

 the perversity of his kind, and without consulting the con- 

 venience of the 'Cheeryble Brothers,' made straight for the 

 Wighill country. Catterton drain and its tributaries were 

 becoming unpleasantly near, and James, who had gone well 



* Messrs. ^^'illiam and James Cooper, of Gledhow. 



