. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. ECHOES OLD COUNTY LIFE, CHAPTER I. Introductory—Masters of the Buckhounds and other EminentSportsmen—Mowbray Morris, and Lord Southampton—VarsityRaces, Roger Pahiier and the Crimean Steeplechase—ProfessorNeate—The Romance of Cheslyn Hall—Lord Chesterfield andthe Election of Speaker Abercrombie—Grants Picture of theRoyal Hunt—Count DOrsay : his Change of Clothes, hisKnife-spinning, and his Sketches. These Reminiscences differ from others that havehitherto been published, in being those, not

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. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. ECHOES OLD COUNTY LIFE, CHAPTER I. Introductory—Masters of the Buckhounds and other EminentSportsmen—Mowbray Morris, and Lord Southampton—VarsityRaces, Roger Pahiier and the Crimean Steeplechase—ProfessorNeate—The Romance of Cheslyn Hall—Lord Chesterfield andthe Election of Speaker Abercrombie—Grants Picture of theRoyal Hunt—Count DOrsay : his Change of Clothes, hisKnife-spinning, and his Sketches. These Reminiscences differ from others that havehitherto been published, in being those, not of men HkeLord Malmesbury, Captain Gronow, the Hon. GrantleyBerkeley, Mr. Greville, and others who belonged to theupper classes of society ; nor of legal luminaries, such asSerjeant Ballantine or Mr. Montagu Williams ; nor of aman renowned upon the stage or with the brush, but ofa fair representative of middle-class life who, in thecourse of a busy career, has met many famous people,and here truthfully records what he remembers aboutthem. I believe these records give a faithful pictu

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