2 54 ^^^^ Pytchley Hunt^ Past and Present. 



to learn that it is not he that is master of the situa- 

 tion. 



A new generation springs up, and the heroes of old 

 sooner or later pass out of remembrance. Many a 

 summer and winter, however, must pass awaj ere it will 

 be forcfotten that among: the huntinsf notables of a former 

 day there were few more conspicuous names than that 

 of " Richard Lee/^ otherwise " Dick, Bevan." 



MR. WILLIAM ANGERSTEIN. 



If any one hunting with the ^^ P.H.''^ some five-and-thirty 

 years since had entertained a desire to dislocate a shoulder, 

 fracture an arm, or suffer some still more serious bodily 

 injury, he could scarcely have adopted a course more full 

 of promise than by following over the ^' Waterloo country " 

 a member of the Hunt who was in the habit of wearing 

 in his button-hole a posy about the size of an ordinary 

 dinner-plate. This was Mr. Angerstein, then residiug at 

 Kelmarsh Hall, the seat of the old county family of 

 Hanbury, the head of which is now known under the title 

 of Lord Bateman of Shobdon Court in the county of 

 Hereford, an ancient possession of the family to which 

 he belongs. Possessed of nerves in sufficient quantity 

 for his own use as well as for that of any friend who 

 had left his at home, Mr. Angerstein^s chief delight was 

 riding at formidable-looking places. The stiffer the rail, 

 the thicker the bullfinch, and the wider the bit of water, 

 the more it seemed to suit the taste of this reckless horse- 

 man. Never having taken to heart or appraised at its 

 rightful value the old sayiug of '^ discretion being the 

 better part of valour," danger when in the hunting-field 



