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was quite a small boy at that time. I picture him as about 

 the average height, rather thick in body, well got up, and so 

 forth. I remember him coming to the meet at the Horse 

 Shoes, Warfield, with Count d'Orsay and two others, four 

 horses with postillions.' Captivated no doubt by Charles 

 Davis's horsemanship, Lord Chesterfield became over-fond 

 of standing up in his stirrups. But he overdid it, for it 

 was said that if you were behind him you could see the ears 

 of his horse between his legs. However, in one of the 

 ' Songs of the Bel voir Hunt,' this Master plays a worthy 

 part, and the bard compliments him upon his seat. 



See Chesterfield advance with steady hand, 

 Swish at a rasper and in safety land ; 

 Who sits his horse so well ? or at a race 

 Drives four-in-hand with greater skill or grace ? 

 And when hounds really run, like him can show 

 How fifteen stone should o'er the county go. 



Lord Kinnaird comes into the great Quarterly Run 

 and goes well all through it. It is he who ventures the 

 observation that Dick Christian would be drowned in the 

 Whissendine. ' But the pace was too good to inquire,' and 

 on they all go. He was a noted Meltonian. Lord Kinnaird 

 tried the experiment of giving the deer very little law and 

 never stopping hounds, as against Davis's plan of sending a 

 whip on for the first mile or so, to stop hounds at a moment's 

 need. This did not answer; the runs were often, over in a 

 few minutes, and the deer being overpressed were often badly 

 hurt. One very frosty season he hunted in the forest all 

 through the frost and snow, and had some capital sport. He 

 lived at Ascot, and was a great man in the kennel as well as 

 a famous rider. 



Lord Rosslyn hunted the Queen's Hounds from the stud 

 house in Bushey Park ; and he must often have looked at 

 some of the pictures which have been reproduced in these 

 pages, many of which were moved some few years ago from 



