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whom, with broadmen and keepers, he always advocated the system 
of training by kindness and encouragement, with firmness, rather 
than the whip. He was a successful fisherman owing to his inti- 
mate acquaintance with the habits of the fish of oui broads and 
rivers, and a good shot in days when the sportsman found his 
game and killed it afterwards, and did not merely in the modern 
sense of the term, go out to shoot ! Of other traits of character, 
such as have come to my knowledge, though necessarily resting on 
the “ hearsay” of others, have redounded greatly to his credit for 
pluck and endurance ; and whilst the boys of Dr. Horne’s school 
acquired, in bis day, the sobriquet of the “Chiswick bulldogs,” 
at a time when boys fought their way up in school in other than a 
mere literary sense, his prowess in this respect, was ever directed to 
the championship of the weak against the strong. 
II is personal appreciation of, and sense of indebtedness to early 
friendships — and to those commencing still later in life — is 
pleasantly shown in his writings, the names of certain naturalists 
and sportsmen occurring repeatedly in the ‘Fauna,’ as authorities; 
prominent amongst them being the late Mr. (’. S. Girdlestone,* of 
Yarmouth ; the Bakers, of Eollesby ; and Mr. John Kerrison, of 
Panworth, the latter, so highly spoken of in the preface to his 
work, for his practical acquaintance with the management of a 
Decoy. Of Mr. Girdlestone’s abilities as an observant naturalist, 
he evidently entertained a very high opinion, and amongst the 
MSS. notes, before referred to, is one in which he alludes to a 
week’s cruise on the Bure in his friend Girdlestone’s boat, as 
“a period I shall always look back upon with pleasure.” It was 
just such a reminiscence of past days that no doubt inspired the 
following passage in his * Fauna : ’ — 
“ A few years back, nothing was pleasanter than a summer expedition 
for a few days, to some of the larger broads ; the preparing the pleasure 
boat, the providing shooting and fishing apparatus, the voyage and the 
arrival, had all their separate charms ; then when arrived, the foraging for 
the public good ; proud was the lucky wight who returned with perch or 
eels— prouder still he who could boast of flappers or a curlew. Then the 
amusement of cooking— each thinking himself the Ude of the party— and, 
above all, the appetite, completely superseding the French sauce, the 
inventor of which declared, ‘ Avec ccla on pouvoit manger son grand pure.’ ” 
* Mr. Girdlestone was a friend and correspondent of Selby, as well as of 
the celebrated Colonel Ilawker, on sporting and natural history topics. 
