126 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1825 to 



consists of a blue coat, with white kerseymere 

 waistcoat, having the gilt button with the 

 letters H. H. under the plume, handsomely 

 embossed on its surface." 



Mmrod here sets out the rules which have 

 been given at p. 41. 



Mr. Charles " The father of the H. H. is that 

 Graeme. well-known sportsman, Mr. Grseme, 

 who resides in the neighbourhood of Aires- 

 ford, and with whom fox-hounds, and the 



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other good things of this world, have agreed 

 so well, that he is said to look as well as he 

 did twenty years ago, and is one of the few 

 men who ride hard and well at his time of 

 life.* 



" Among other charges against fox-hunting, 

 I have heard it accused of being a selfish 

 amusement, in which gentlemen alone can 

 partake, but from which ladies are, by their 

 nature, excluded. The Hampshire Hunt are 

 entitled to an honourable acquittal here ; for 

 though they would not, if they could, alter 



* Mr. Charles Graeme came into Hants about 1785; he had been a 

 ■writer in India, and was a witness on Warren Hastings's trial. About 

 1789 he lived at Rotherfield, which was then an old red house which 

 belonged to the Marquis of Winchester. He then went to Xew House, 

 Ropley, and next bought Dean House, Kilmiston, of Mr. Laver Oliver, 

 which he afterwards sold to Sir Henry Warde, K.C.B. His son, Mr. 

 W. T. Graeme, to whom this book is dedicated, succeeded his father as 

 secretary of the H. H., and has officiated as steward, at the Hunt and 

 other county races, oftener than any other gentleman. Like his father, 

 he has been the owner of several good horses. 



