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of whom I have spoken, this seems a fitting place to mention 

 two good sportsmen whose names occur to the mind as soon 

 as the Bramham Moor hounds are mentioned. I allude to 

 the late Mr. Georo-e Low'ther and the late Mr. Tom Kennedy. 

 Mr. Lowther was as devoted to hunting as is his brother, 

 Mr. James Lowther, to the turf, and he knew as much about 

 hounds and hound pedigrees, and was as keen of talking about 

 them, as Mr. James Lowther does about the thoroughbred. 

 Never a fine horseman in the best sense of the word, and 

 never a hard man after I knew him, there was no man keener, 

 and I do not know of anyone who saw so much sport. A 

 capital pilot if you chanced to be thrown out, he seemed 

 to have an instinctive knowledge of the run of a fox, as 

 well as a very sharp eye to see when hounds turned. 

 There was no better judge of the capabilities of a Hunt 

 servant than he was, and he was quick to recognise merit 

 in the subordinates. He was not one of those sportsmen 

 who postpone their hunting operations till November, for 

 though he was an all-round sportsman, hunting with him ever 

 stood first. It was never too early in the morning for him 

 to go cub -hunting, and he was generally attended by 

 Mrs. Lowther and some of his family. I remember him 

 asking me once on a fine October morning if I was going 

 to the second October Meeting at Newmarket, and I shall 

 never forget his reply when I answered in the affirmative: 

 'I think the October Meetings are the best,' said he; 'but 

 'they have one great drawback. If it is a fine hunting 

 ' morning as you walk or ride across the heath, you feel that 

 ' you ought to be doing something else, and that you have 

 ' no business to be racing- when there is a prospect of 

 'hounds running.' It seems almost superfluous to add that 

 Mr. Lowther was a fine 'whip,' and that he used to run the 

 Bridlington coach for many years. There is an anecdote 

 told of him when driving the coach which I perhaps may 



