HEEOES OF THE OLD SCHOOL. 47 



CHAPTER IV. 



Heroes of the Old Scliool. — Sir Francis Burdett at Home and 

 in the Field. — Liberty Hall. — Fishing Extraordinary. — 

 More last words about Assheton Smith. — A tremendous 

 Bulfincher.— xi New Name for an Old Friend. — A. short 

 game at FoUow-my-leader. — Why don't you Holloa? — Ar- 

 bitrary Architecture. — The Rooks that wouldn't Quit. — A 

 New Style of Dinner Dress. — Pride and Prejudice in the 

 Servants' Hall.— The Tidworth Crystal Palace. 



The sportsmen of my time, with whom I was 

 more intimately acqnainted, were, Sir Francis Bur- 

 dett, the Earls of Ducie and Kintore, Assheton 

 Smith, William Codrington, and Villebois — save 

 the first, all well-known masters of foxhounds. Of 

 Mr. Ward I knew little personally, until the last 

 year of his sporting career, although when a boy 

 at school I had often hunted with his hounds on 

 foot as well as on horseback, our tutor residing in 

 the centre of his country. 



Sir Erancis was as great an enthusiast in fox- 

 hunting as in politics ; but I am incKncd to think, 



