The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-09-09 00:00:00

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=mums AT HOME IN THE WORLD.
Lean ALINOTOII AT CRICHIL.
The tall, ps.ledit-dressed man, with the essenUally
figure, well known at farmers' clubs and
Mal gatherings of every kind, Is Henry Gerard Snort,
first Lord , one of the most popular of living
Esigliskroen."ll4: of this popularity may be doe to the
fact that Lord Albigton is not one of those now
landholders who are obliged in live on their farms,
the Grorenors, Cavendishes, Russells, and Bentincks, he
Ii lucky enough to have had an ancestor, or rather, in his
ore snoestress, useesseed of land near Logsdon. The
antepenultimate Start was not only fortunate enough to
inherit the Gerard and Napted=y,but clever enough
to marry the only daughter d • Mr. Pitfield of
Hoxton, whose wife was an Ashley. When Mr. Start
acquired with his wife that undiscovered Part of London
in which murders are committed with impunity. It con.
sired of fields and ditches, call now and then traversed
by waaderers from the not very distent villages of hung-
ton and Hackney. Since that date Hinton has bkesomed
out into Nap-Weleta. Gerard-crescents, Blurt-squares,
and BrudeneThrews : and Lord Alington, despite his you.
tics as on. of the heads of the Doneashire agricultural
interest, can afford to give his farming tenants an easy
time of it so long as the Hoxtonians pay quarterly: nor
Is he ever happier than when he is remitting rent, or lend-
intrdold tenant • hand to help him out of the slough.
Alingtou, perhaps, derives the noticeable figure
already alluded to from the Brudenelle for he is the son
of one of the "divinely tall" sisters of the late Lord
Cardigan' but the most careful study of his family-por-
traits fails to reveal the source of that perfect IPitt
profile of which be is justly proud. This resemblance to
Pitt vanishes completely on looking Alington full
face; and then it Wwmes clear to the previously
uninitiated, why he has always been known as "Bunny
Start A abort upper-hp barely covers the slightly-pro-
jecting teeth' a feature, by the way, also conspicuous in
the Seymour family. Hence " Bun," • cognomen which
has been explained in • thousand rldicnlouo ways, such as
severity on the subject of rabbits, and his fury against
poachers of every kind and degree. As "Bunny
his clever
Lord
and genial abandoned
threw wavering
in his lot GI the of
Conservatives wboan Immediately succe:ded the Trine
England party. For a while, however, the profile of Pitt
kept fairly on the pleasant side of life. Country life in the
winter, and town life In the season, knew no more ardent
or agreeable member. A quick shot and • capital home.
man, Gerard Stun was mover at • tom for • happy after-
dinner 'Porch or • sprightly story about a common friend.
Hu stories owed, perhaps, more to the skill of the
remakes than to their intrinsic merit' but they were
always succeedul ; and when he talked, listeners of both
sexes lent an attentive oar. He was always in the first
rank of fashion ; and when it wall the fashion to " plunge"
on hoeseracing there was no each daring plunger as Gerard
Stun, when be thought be had about' a stone in hand."
While his influence wee paramount in the Wood.
latow stable, groat handicap coups were planned, and,
what Is more, actually came di. In those days
good things dropped from Woodyates into the
mouths of senile backers of hones, and such strokes
as that made with Catch 'am Alive warmed the winter
art of many an impecunious gentleman. The great
Dulcibella and Weatherbound year was another feather
with a very rich gold mounting in the cap of Woodyars,
and all these good thing, were not unprofitable to the
bolder and yet wirier " plunger - of them all; but at
last the conviction came that politics and not the turf
was the proper theatre for a man endowed with broad
Malin • labyrinth of streets in the unknown
continent of Hinton, and a profilen, that of the Heaven.
sent Minister. It is needlees to inquire bow far this
frame of mind was brout about by the waning fortunes
of Woodyatee. Lord Maltesbury's downs, within only
s few miles of Chard had for some little time ceased to
be propitious. =Ay to popular favourites. althoughMAß- -train, Gridiron, Historian, and Valor were each
femme in their yeses as samation hangs, slither for win-
king CC not imolai greet ram. Through all this the
owner of Crichel remained "Bunny" Start. Ouse as good
• horsemen as any in high Leicestershire, sad now often
showing with Lord Portineria that his nerve is as good ea
ever, Lord Alington never allows his sporting proclivities
to deflect his attention from Petty Session, or the relief
of the poor. In the letter respect he is perhaps too
promiscuous; and his pocket well lined at starting with
silver broad pieces, is age to be empty at the end of a
morning ride round his vWages, Wealth is not very evenly
distributed around GUMMI, situated in the ertern corner
of Donetahlre, and • few mire from the borders of Wilt-
shire and Somerset Donelehire labourers are almost
historic figures in sorban:lTel history, and albeit a gentle,
kindly, and far from witless folk. WS singularly wanting
in the qualities which oceumad moss Until Kr. Arch
and others taught Mein new doctrine they were content
with such wages as they could get; and provided they got
milk enough for their children and an occesicaal fill of
beer for thesnadveg, laird on. if not contentedly, at lean
with uttering • feeble moan now and then.
the help of great landowners Is needful to them, as al
Shaftesbury frankly acknowledges
It must be allowed, a little out of the highwayof= is
trate. Little-known Cranborne, with It. fine
aid manor-bows is the nearest town, sod Lord Shaf taw
bury at St Silas Homo the nearest neighbour. Viewed
from the exterior, Weisel is. Wm many notable &Wish
aossotty houses, hardly beautiful, The peat stone square
of the primitive fortelkatica constructed on the lines of
the wagon " lamer" has beets adorned with a portico and
large columns with the erect that any architectural mind
will be able to picture for itself. lawmen'', however,
Oriohel is admirably arranged for the purpose of enter-
tainment, the series of fine handsome rooms affording
that pleasant medium for circulation without which a
large party must of necessity be a failure, from simple
tylCon of the grate, who here have ample space or
p or flirtation toroth the ceilings painted by
Equally convenient, but lee ornamental, is the
chapel dose to the eastern front, cutting off a new of this
lake, but making some amends in its interior decorations
Hare are the tombs of the Nature, to whom Crichel
originally belonged, and also two tablets; one to the
memory of the late Sir Robert Pest for whom the father
of Lord Islington always expressed unbounded admiration;
and the other recording the Daniel of those soldiers,
natives of the neighbourhood, who fell in the Crimean
The lake Lod referred to occupies some forty aorm In
front of the hawk and is not only • picturesque object in
the Madames but Interesting to the naturalists as the .
haunt of strange wild-fowl. No sorer have the northern '
birds of passage lathed at Crichel onitheir southern night
in early winter than no gun is permitted to be fired in the
neighbourhood of the lake, to which !wort hundreds of
wild-duck, flocks of test pooliard, widgeon, and tutted
duck Nobles • sprinkling of goosanair and other less
common species of aquatic birds. At such times it Is •
great pleasure to Lord Alington, whose Idea of wild
animals rises beyond the conception of them as thing.
be killed, to take his friends for • walk round the
and show them • sight supreed to be unique in England
—a multitude of wild-lowl, so tame from being Offer t
molested, that they will not fly up though approached
within • hundred yards. The noblest of ancient birds of
chase also finds harbour in the tell woods on the border of
the lake. One of the few heronries left in England is to
be found there; and the herons, eared u the Mee of the
Capitol, soar like eagles over the perk,. spreading their
long Malang secure from the stoop of gyr-faloan Of liffadsa
=Some three miles from the house and
ta.Hill, whence may be obleined a
of t
view New Forest and the Needles. is Horton ...
Toiler, an Old Tower, an Old ruin bunt by that Humphrey [SMALL Maui antlrOe —GILIAT DITZLOPMENTS. —ln
Start whose main pursuits in life were ins and fez. contemplating all the works of Nature, the most striking
bunting. Aftsr the manner of their kind, the surround- fact everywhere apparent is the small beginning of her
!ligt:Traa unsisweecisties s Vol population named the knee, greadest yroductima Me towering oak baleen aa • moan us . whits It vnia Wu bum. and many of ebe seem and the largest mined se • Mae Spent which a pbes
old villagers call it "The Folly" Ma unto this day, head would cover. It is very frequently the ante in the
The ardor of Wake see pretty enough In moth way busy walks of life—great wealth er great distiactke often
and would perhaps be prettier but for the gruesome lenolltu Man •••• smallest, the hnmbled Mane of • gasometer, which supplies the house with slin= our merchant Princes bon, Inatkt nutleesegiatZ light at some sacrifice of the picturesque. A usue we mount in illustration of our theme I Then is one,
distance beyond is the stream which supplies the lake, and k____._A„Owinir "Oft._ carver, .s reported to sul., is one of the Rapid
provides a - fistitur hunting-ground for a tame cormorant. ........g.._, ....._
_rn ....FP. "on Some forty years. 'aro Dr
whose antics furnish milt eniuseneent This veracious non° u. .ownst ...glows,' was unknown, unheard of,
biro is hardly more carefully 'magi efter than the hat 1 He was only or of the multitude, each of which eclipses
which provide him with prey. Them are cultivated in a 1 his oniglit,P'. and in in his tap sell. But WM,
plotur.sqe little house pitched ammo same of the tine I t lowing W ilia •LawatlY "eons f
ul medical theory amil yews In Eneinad. many of which ere repeated to he it,. medicines which he has invented and in us
hundred yews The Ilak-hatchieg apparatus may be nnilie_is_,_"7.n in every b""'__ ...c4 the. 1-7—ni...Led
sow to ho meets ',memory by Q. desc,.Aesieste of the I one in reirt every tOWEI sad C.], .14 •RO'
1...., who would otherwise dip La. the rim" The . Sin,Th• 5.,...,
_tate King °LSI= not, only constantly
perk—of some five hundred (al of fine trees. 0 eg .."""1". ? but
even ‘"ll44ad his,___,unbaNadort
It. eastern aide commences • magnificent raogs of woofs . over here to riot the Professor at his
. imag—wireo...ol a/dryer/a-
laboeristhasechssowooda
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population, &Onions to =entails the mod old __nal... ' :enin_.,_ un'e al "'" manner Iminenti7 visited Qltio=.s of Oraeborne Ohms, in which te between r,nuwwor„ Holloway :K. bail I,be Neetetary of the fewsows
=and keglers were Meg as the only 81" heilebawli. Mr _..Wao knighted by the QOM'S.
e the locality alerdeg, Lem misses is aurae Other( erbium have
fro= theism& the
inclined tO look ution the shellfish el the geseplaws with t. whease"n= - led obtained extreme favour: but, although a eke* breeder of =1:084.1=14,... wildicines, 44151 elm of theft ett.
phrases, is considerate La the esiellee tte seetted soma •l`ea ilindosimowrote
lk thAt I*
to his tarots to whom a rer-5'5-semelet sof hems Walsall" mia
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(Saggasted by • course ot Allman. Schopenhaner, and
Manom
What is t Since Philosophers cannot Nina,
Let • poor pouted Montt hasard • guess;
• thing that begins in • Call—with • C,
And ends in • Sal—with an &
THE " CHEEP OF THE PARTRIDGE.
Perdu Cisurss Isquitur.

'Tie the voice of the Sportsman. I beer him complain,
All my hopes of big bags have been damped by the
rain.
With birds shy and scarce, flooded furze and so stubble,
To beat driptlag cover' is scarce worth thr trouble.'
Ads I The wind's ill that blows nobody good
Trite the wet has proved fatal to many • brood,
Palest birds have made moan over eggs swamped sad
addled,
When our covers were lakes in which ducks might have
peddled,
But partridges drowned when they'd scarce chipped the
shell,
Yet.—yu, on the whole, 'tie perhaps just ne well
Water!
,Better than ; aml • ••14 i• the head

Z'ic.«71c31;17.7i.--
Prime time for swell meals of powdor end shot !
What's September to Mem without plenty to pot
Oh I won't they fume, es they look oat this more
. .

On these damp huth swamps. and you drenched stand-
ing corn?
Poor grumbling gun-maniacs ! Isn't it fun?
In the game "Birds v. Barrels- we birds will score one
Just for once, I should hops- In this beautiful bog
I am safe, I should fancy, from bean, gust and dolt
nay may beg a few birds on the skirts al the wheat,
Bat I don't think Ws cover wW pay 'em the beet.
Bt. Partridge be bothered Si, ()within's my Saint,
May his rainy reign last. I shall make no complaints
No 1 Farmers and Sportsmen may grumble together—
For my part. I rather approve of the weather.
(Left chuckling.)

A VOICE FROM THE WEST.
NWT= PUNCH,
Zumtimes I ha' thowt. as I sot r to' earner. aainokin'
me pine.
Whet th' Tanner r goo droo's a-got wr his crops mor
ar'n o"em be ripe;
Yet mid he but reap what's a-sown, an' gathar an' kip
what's a-got.
Vole-treads an' bad masons mid mown, lie 'd rub droo't
all content err his lot;
But ih' yoke 'at there be ?Or to kip, pon•maaong. 'Us •
pussie I me—
ii zoo many yecres o' land, that we all be 13 fees aa
we be I
Jest so for dthessum lines I'd a-poned. header Pen*
when there cum 1' ma beck,
wr a p•in on kis ream, neighbour Cog ;—but write
down the words we did crack :
Cox 18.10 l.ard Besoonalleki zap.; top o' paper
I've men it s' print—
" Dose renta must be paid by th' land." (Noe wonder
our inciney's • spent I)
"Ttr !stint his wages moat be,; an' th' landlord his
rent twice • year;
An' th' Tanner Lev t' live on ;" Um' market. an'
sesame be queer.
Jare.—About gull men, I blieve, it's a-mid, seams
thowts 'ill creep Into th'r peed,
But Widen jest what I da mean, what the gurt man in
Lonan's
I teal gobs' t' say—no, not I! that I rind any fool wr
!milord.
He's a-born to high steation, an' zoo he's • right to all
we sea afford;
But when ram • little bit push'd. I do dthink how Um
load do Mama,—
Th' schoolineestera mien, an' jails, paupers,
highwats, rt. Police.
'IV kippers. tit meats. th' lawyers, all a isotopia a pull
at pone cup,
Whatsoever th' land may bring forth, noo wonder 't is
all swoller'd up !
Cor--Bravo, Jere ! Mara coma a bit roan'; but dthens
landlords dust worship so conch,
Midas they that do prey on th' land but Ur laws 'at do
make "ern Mooch;
Weld faggots o' an' wax, ink, an' dry-dust,
wr red lel" "i'ed,
Wl' entails an dowries to laud they couldn't be free
el they !
Well I The lead, we be avoid, most be jaggrd—hocur
pccus—ite dna rents to yield.
But there's came 'sly. both ha vorgotten,—seest yonder
fat rook r th' yield t
Jere.—Th' parson I
Ons.— titbe-rent be sure! 'at both Mae
to' lard E. ha' vorgat I
Now, warming can't awry vowsr rents I—but I'll tell'. •
tale 'lll 10 pat:
A wheeler by trade was John Jukes. like • brave 'on
he'd work a long day.
And th' harder he work'd the moore jab'. with • light
parse he'd just pay his way ;
But cone night he did hit on • plan o' meek= o' mouse-
trate by dame,
gmliglitwaY etch work did come to an, an' money
like gold in • dream ;
Zis voremen John mid r look aler a pude of joereep-
non
An' he furnished Muesli err • carhop, an' all th' wide
world wi' his tripe;
114Aat'ainidiftuanranbil":::,"tbsY0411.mitakisra71::::. , fe":o:orimunt Y.sakeswhik. moons-traps,
Ipsading-traPr.
9. were to blame
Oone day in hie carriage. I DMA no, a-waited V nom
Zays he, " do'e gre me advice, I'm ii-broke Ill'
Zaps I, "John, do's sail dthem vino carriage, get rid o'
th fools yeire a-made;
If mill ye de a rhea work you may still drive • goad ,
wholesome wade.
But has for diem.. fal-lals and follies, ye mid Mao' vor
• time ma expenee.
But th' weaken o' mouse-trope men ow' it I ''—Zoo there
now. 'ars good common sense
Jana ilnau.nong.