CHAPTEE III. 



Sport in the New Forest — Sir Bellingham Graham — The 

 horse General — Mr. Smith becomes Master of the Ham- 

 bledon hounds — Unpromising beginning — Extraordinary- 

 run into Sussex — Mr. Smith's picture of the H. H., with 

 sixty-five likenesses — Visit to the Quorn — An unexpected 

 honour. 



In the spring of 1823 Mr. Smith took his two 

 hunters to Lyndhnrst for a week's hunting in 

 the Kew Forest, which at that time was an- 

 nually visited by many masters of hounds 

 and celebrated sportsmen. Among them was 

 Sir Bellingham Graham, whom he had. known 

 formerly when a cadet at the Military College, 

 Great Marlow, and had frequently met, with 

 Sir Godfrey "Webster, dining at his uncle's, 

 Mr. Wethered. He well recollects seeing 

 these two young baronets, with their orange- 

 coloured hunting-coats, riding to meet the old 

 Berkeley hounds — that colour being the uni- 



