Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . d block—generous, high-spirited, big-hearted, open-handed, withan ineradicable craze for spending money. He wentthe pace as his sire had done before him ; was one ofthe wildest spirits that met in that haunt of noble mad-caps, the once notorious Limmers Hotel ; was knownin every sporting crib in London and Newmarket as adevoted patron of the Turf, the Ring, and the dice-box, andwhen he had reached the l
Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . d block—generous, high-spirited, big-hearted, open-handed, withan ineradicable craze for spending money. He wentthe pace as his sire had done before him ; was one ofthe wildest spirits that met in that haunt of noble mad-caps, the once notorious Limmers Hotel ; was knownin every sporting crib in London and Newmarket as adevoted patron of the Turf, the Ring, and the dice-box, andwhen he had reached the length of his tether, sank intoignoble indigence. The generosity of some old friendsof the family, notably Lord Combermere and Sir WatkinWynn, rescued him from destitution, and provided himwith a home, where in modest comfort he ended hisdays in the spring of 1875, at the age of fifty-one. Hehad broken the entail with the consent of his son whopredeceased him, and his ancestral estate was soldfor ^150,000 to Mr Edward Wright, head of the greatManchester firm of Wright & Son. So Halston and itsoaks passed for ever out of the hands of the place there knows them no ?t«i<«, O^z^^ LORD FORESTER. There are no qualities, so far as my experience goes,which are more frequently transmitted from father toson than those which go to the making of the highest intellectual gifts are but rarely hereditary,and for these a man is, perhaps, oftener indebted to hismother than his father. But the sporting strain isessentially masculine, derived from male ancestry, andapparently more susceptible of transmission from genera-tion to generation than almost any other human I the space I could enumerate instances ofhereditary sportsmanship—cases in which the taste for asport and the skill necessary for proficiency in it havebeen handed down in almost unbroken succession. The good sportsman with whom I am immediatelyconcerned here was, at any rate, a
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