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Bob Forfeit,
Like "Pop" Henessey, Arber,
and one or two Order Skelaxin other huntsmen
of whom very little is known, Bob
Forfeit at one time or another
earned his money in some other
way than by hunting hounds. His
father is believed to have been a
farmer, and for some time Bob
Forfeit took some share in farming
the land, but always hunting as
often as possible. It is supposed
that the Forfeit family farmed in
Kent, and that Mr. Warde be-
came acquainted with him in that
county, where his own estate was
situated. Be that as it may, Bob
Forfeit soon became whipper-in,
and afterwards huntsman to some
harriers. On leaving them he
whipped-in to some foxhounds, but
in what county cannot be ascer-
tained, and was employed by Mr.
Warde when he hunted in Oxford-
shire. When the " father of fox-
hunting" became master of the
Py tchley Bob Forfeit was his hunts-
man, though curiously enough no
mention is made of him in the late
Mr. Nethercote's history of that
hunt. We know, however, that he
was considered a huntsman of con-
siderable skill, and was a bold rider.
On one occasion he pounded the
whole of the Pytchley field at a Order Skelaxin Online
brook, he himself Buy Cheap Skelaxin getting a bad fall
on landing. With whom he lived
afterwards; when or where he
died, is not known.
Bicester and Warden Hill Hunt.
We have received a copy of
the following circular, which, in
view of its importance, is printed
in full : —
At a general meeting of the
members of the Bicester and
Warden Hill Hunt, held at the
Cartwright Arms, Aynho, on
April ist, 1899, the following
rules dealing with the question
of subscriptions by non-residents
and strangers hunting with the
Bicester and Warden Hill Hounds
were adopted and ordered to be
circulated :
Rule I. — Non-residents taking houses
"or the season, living in hotels or lodgings,
>r keeping their horses within the limits Generic Skelaxin of
he Bicester and Warden Hill Hunt, ate
expected to pay at least jfio per horse.
[*his rule also applies to ladies and gentle-
nen hunting with the Bicester and Warden
-Jill Hounds from Brackley, Buckingham,
Vinslow, or from any town, house, or
►lace on the borders of the country south
t Thorpe Mandeville.
Rule 2. — All strangers, to whom
Rule I does not apply, will be expected
to pay at least ,£35 each.
Rule 3. — Strangers hunting with the
Bicester and Warden Hill Hounds on
Saturdays only in the Northamptonshire
part of the country north of Thorpe Man-
deville inclusive, will be expected to pay
,£35 each, unless they are also subscribers
of at least £2$ to an adjoining park of
hounds ; in such cases only £\o will be
required.
Rule 4. — These subscriptions are per-
sonal, and cannot be considered as in-
cluding the friends of subscribers.
Rule 5. — These conditions apply to
those hunting for Buy Skelaxin Online a part as well as for the
whole season.
These rules do not apply to
landowners or covert owners in
the adjoining Hunts, or to mem-
bers of the University of Oxford
in residence, or to officers quar-
tered in the Bicester and Warden
Hill country.
Henry Tubb,
Hon. Sec. Bicester and
Warden Hill Hunt.
Chesterton , Bicester,
April 8th, 1899.
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Anecdotal Sport.
By " Thormanby."
Author of ** Kings of the Hunting- Field," '* Kings of the Turf," &c
In reading "Digby Grand" over
again in the new edition of Whyte
Melville's novels, Purchase Skelaxin Online I have been
struck with the change that has
come over the sports and pastimes
of the man-about-town in London
since that book was written. Even Buy Skelaxin
ten years after the story was first
published when I was first intro-
duced to life in London there was
something rowdy and sordid and
degrading about what was com-
monly known as sport. It was
thought the correct thing to pat-
ronise sparring matches at the
saloons attached to public-houses
kept by retired prize-fighters, or
ratting matches at the rat-pits
kept by such celebrities in the
canine world as Jemmy Shaw.
Now and then the ardent lover of
" The Fancy " " snatched a fear-
ful joy " from being privileged to
assist at a " little mill with the
'raw 'uns' on the strict Q.T."
in some secluded stable in the
slums, or a main of cocks in some
damp and dingy and evil-smelling
cellar. The illegality of these
pastimes and the risk of being
pounced on by the police gave
them, I suppose, an unholy zest.
It was the same at the Univer-
sities before boating and athletics
came and purified the atmosphere
and swept these miserable and
degrading abortions of sport out
of existence. But there must be
many old 'Varsity men now living
who can remember the time when
badger-drawing, rat-killing, dog-
fighting, surreptitious excursions
to prize-fights and the like were
the staple amusements of our
academic youth. Cricket was
then a game only played by a
few enthusiasts, football was but
a pastime for schoolboys, athletics
were unknown, and not one man
in ten cared for rowing. Those
who could afford it hunted, kept
their stud of hunters if thev were
very rich, if only moderately so,
hired a hunter for a Purchase Skelaxin couple of
guineas for the day from a livery-
stable keeper. But to the great
bulk of undergraduates such
amusement was beyond their
means, and then, if their tastes
were sporting, they could only
gratify them by those recreations
of the " Fancy " which I have