. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. rly, and having each MR. CARROLLS JOKES. 103 year sold a hunter, I was reduced at last to my browncob. Now I have my ride to the meet on him, potterabout through the best line ogates I can find, and enjoylife as much as ever. And indeed I well rememberMr. Carrolls round jolly red face, his short curly flaxenhair, his quiet humour and ready wit. His portrait is tobe seen in the picture by Grant of the Royal Hunt,in the left-hand corner of it; he is represented withouthis hat, on a cob, talk
. Echoes of old county life : being recollections of sports, politics, and farming in the good old times. rly, and having each MR. CARROLLS JOKES. 103 year sold a hunter, I was reduced at last to my browncob. Now I have my ride to the meet on him, potterabout through the best line ogates I can find, and enjoylife as much as ever. And indeed I well rememberMr. Carrolls round jolly red face, his short curly flaxenhair, his quiet humour and ready wit. His portrait is tobe seen in the picture by Grant of the Royal Hunt,in the left-hand corner of it; he is represented withouthis hat, on a cob, talking to Sir Seymour Blane andhis bosom friend, Johnny Bushe, and looking up tohim is Paddy, the fellow who used to run v/ith thepack. Some of Carrolls sayings were very smart. On oneoccasion, when Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence—who wasof course a sailor, the son of our sailor king and thefamous actress, Mrs. Jordan—was telling the companyafter dinner that he had had a bad fall over a fencenear Hardwick, Carroll said, Oh ! it could not havehurt you much, as you are too much of a Tar to carefor a pitch!. CHAPTER VII. Louis XVIII. at Hartwell—The English Garden—The King hashis own again ; my Father escorts him to London—TheiManners of Parochial Clergy—Tate and Brady triumphant—Horse-whipping a Miller—An Independent Tory—Anecdote ofLord Palmerston and the Witty Bishop, When Napoleon the Great, at the beginning of thiscentury, drove the Royal Family out of France, and theysought shelter with us, our Government were doubtfulwhere they could be placed in safety, so as to preventa co2ip de main either from the French themselves,or by the Revolutionary party in England ; and it wasdeemed necessary for their security that the Royalexiles should reside somewhere in the centre of Eng-land. Hartwell was the place selected, a statelymansion surrounded with fine timber, standing in apark of great pastoral beauty. A picturesque littlechurch, embosomed in trees, is within a hundred
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