g over himself and but at all events the thing was done perhaps on more than one occasion and was allowed on all hands not only as a tact but as characteristic of sporting idol it was all over or just like this phrase was also applied to many other heroic a the idea of for instance adapted from the code was said to be practically enforced in the case of and other objectionable persons in the lake at while the administration of to and generally by the squire � these e much lain class ine same to which the and independent belongs for the clenched fist became an open hand after it had done its work � a golden tliat is was always applied after these such as healed all wounds of might at one time have been member for the county if he had pleased but he desired no seat except in tiie saddle or on the driving box he showed such skill in riding and with the ribbons that some persons supposed that his talents must be very considerable in other matters and tn regret their there were that he knew latin better than his own and was or had been so a student of writ that he could give you chapter and verse for thing but it must be allowed thai others were not wanting to whisper that these of were and that all the wonder lay in the fact that the squire knew any thing of such matters at all nay a few even ventured to their opinion that but for his and his money there was nothing more remarkable in than in but this idea was never within twenty miles of the real is that the time was to the display of the squire s particular traits he would have been an eminent personage had be been a and lived in the reign of king john even now if he have removed his establishment to and assumed the character of a russian proprietor he would doubtless hare been a great prince there was a savage magnificence about him and also certain degrading traits which su the unfortunately he was a squire in the the contrast however of his splendid with the quiet time and industrious locality in which he lived while it diminished his influence did on the other hand no doubt his reputation he was looked upon as and used to be as a an eccentric an altogether exceptional personage to license was permitted and the charitable divided the race for his sake into men women and the same philosophic few however who denied him talent that he was ha f mad and indeed fortune had so her on him from his birth that it might well be that they had turned his bead his father had died while was bnt an infant so that the income from his vast estates had accumulated to an enormous sum when ho his majority in the mean time his mi had supplied him with out of all pro to his tender years at ten years old e had a pack of of his own and hunted the county regularly twice a week at the public school where he was with difficulty persuaded to remain for a short period be had an allowance the amount of which would have for the needs of a professional man with a wife and family and yet it is recorded of him that he had the audacity � the boy is to the man and it was so like they said � to complain to his guardian a great lawyer that his means were he also demanded a lump sum down on the ground that being at bred in the the ripe age of he marriage the reply of the is pre aa well as the gentleman s application if can t live npon allowance starve sir and if jou marry net have allowance yon had having authority to do bo � to advise and he to go to your opinion and did you attempt to oppose him in any you would its accomplishment he did not mar at fourteen indeed but he did so in less than three years afterward and had issue bnt at the ago of five and thirty when our stage opens he had neither wife nor child but lived as ft bachelor at which was called the by reason of its and sometimes liberty hall on account of its license otherwise it was never called any thing but never hall or n park � hut simply just like or and yet the park at was as splendid an of and avenue of and as could be desired it was all laid out upon a certain plan � somewhere in the old house was the very on which the chase was ordered like a garden a drives here from one like the of a wheel and here made a st s cross in the very centre � bnt the area was so immense and the stature of the trees so great that nothing of this formality could be observed in the park itself not only were the oaks and of large and often of giant proportions but the very grew so tall that whole of deer were hidden in it and could only be traced by their there were red deer also almost as numerous with curiously as though they had acquired that vegetation by as ihey often did against the high wooden p de � itself made picturesque by age � which them in prison for miles moreover there were wild cattle as at not of the same breed the of whose kept the few public paths that this wild very these animals imported half a century ago wore of no use nor of particular beauty and would have away from the of the locality for their bnt that they were and at a vast expense 