GREAT SKILL IN ALL ATHLETIC SPOKTS. 



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Mr. Smith's well-knit and manly frame, combined with 

 great activity in the use of his limbs, rendered him successful 

 in all athletic sports. In his youth he had been a first-rate 

 swimmer, rower, and shot. To his powers as a cricketer, the 

 Appendix to this volume bears ample testimony. His emi- 

 nence as a fox-hunter has, however, thrown into the shade the 

 fact of his having excelled in these diversions. He said he 

 should like to ride, shoot, play cricket, and box with Mr. 

 Osbaldeston, but he would begin with the last, in order to 

 disqualify his opponent from obtaining the victory in the 

 otKer three exploits. From his love of boating at Eton, 



KB. AS8HBT0K SMITh's BTBAM-TACHT, " SIA SBBPBXT." 

 From a Drawing in the Library at Tedtcorth. 



doubtless, sprang his taste for yachting in after life. Every- 

 where at Ted worth might be traced indications of his favourite 



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