ADVERTISEMENT. 



The following pages contain some notices of 

 the life of Thomas Smith, Ex-Master of Fox- 

 hounds, and the keenest sportsman that I at 

 least have ever known. He was not, it is true, 

 horn with a silver spoon in his mouth, like 

 Tom Smith of Tedworth, with whom he ran 

 a long course of honourable rivalry; but he 

 was, as I may say, '^ bom in the saddle," 

 which is more to the purpose for a true sports- 

 man. 



During his long career, Mr. Smith has been 

 twice Master of the Hambledon Hounds; he 

 has also been Master of the Craven and of the 

 Pytchley; he has hunted with most of the 

 best packs in the kingdom; and he has had a 

 good deal of sport in Scotland, where he made 

 havoc among the salmon and the grouse, as 



