CHAPTER IV 



FROM THE HUNT PEDIGREE 

 BOOKS, ETC. 



ROPER'S DEATH 



In the " Hound Book," and quaintly sandwiched in 

 amongst the list of his hounds, appears the old Squire's 

 obituary notice. And yet, perhaps, the place is not so 

 inappropriate, for we are told that his was "a quick and 

 sudden death, and in the Feild " ; and surely this grand old 

 sportsman of eighty-four would have wished to have his end 

 recorded in no better fashion than amongst the names of 

 the faithful four-footed friends that were at once the pride 

 and dehght of his existence, and the witnesses of his 

 departure for the happy hunting-grounds of which he had 

 so truly earned the right of membership I 



Mem"". 



On the 26 Feb^. 1722/3 being Shrove Tuesday M'. 

 Roper died att Monckton Furzes. 



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