Related article: sporting becoming an acquire- ment, metaphorically, indigenous to the soil." And, as our anony- mous author so intended it, the foregoing statement is peculiarly applicable to the fair county of Shropshire, which may justly boast of being the native land of a greater number of sportsmen of high caste and repute than any other county of .equal magnitude. Indeed, where fox-hunting is con- cerned, the list is of surpassing brilliance, including as it does the rtamesof Jack Mytton,the '* Squire of Halston"; Mr. John Corbet, father of the Warwickshire Hounds; Squire Leche; George Forester, the ** Willey Squire,*' together with his cousin and heir, the first Lord Forester, of Leices- tershire fame ; Sir Richard Pules- ton ; the second Earl of Kilmorey, — who must not, however, be confounded with his successor, who, to keep out the hounds, which formed his particular aver- sion, had his fine park at Shav- ington surrounded by a great brick wall ; Mr. Pelham, of Cound, and last, but not least, Mr. William Childe, of Kinlet, whose exploits are to form the subject of this paper. All of these are names which will never be forgotten by the sporting world, while again, among Salop- ian huntsmen, Mr. Corbet's Will Barrow, Squire Forester's Tom Moody, Mr. Assheton Smith's George Carter, Joseph Maiden — who served in turn with the Surrey Union, Warwickshire, Cheshire, and North Staffordshire • packs — and George Mountford» of the Quorn, are those singling themselves out for special men- tion. Truly a galaxy of Nimrods, and as one inscribes each name the temptation to descant at length upon the bearer's career proves well-nigh irresistible. The anecdotage of that of Messrs. Corbet and Mytton re- spectively is, of course, fairly familiar ; theirs' are biographies which, from the sporting point of view, at least, have been wdl attended to. The many amusing eccentricities of Mr. Pelham, however, whose pleasure it was to attire his hunt-servants in white, pipeclayed hunt coats, and to relieve the tedium of off- days by stone-breaking on the his grealgranddaughltr, by F. Bahbage. 1 899.] ** THE FLYING CHILDE. ft 243 country roads, would require a separate article to do them justice. Shavington knows the house of Kilmorey no longer ; many years ago it became the property of the late Mr. Hey wood- Lonsdale, but the wall, which cost an enormous sum to build, still remains a standing witness to the foible Betagan Ophthalmic of the original owners' solitary non- hunting representative. The story goes, that hardly was it finished before his lordship came to the conclusion that in erecting it he had been guilty of a very foolish and unsportsmanlike act, but the trustees declined to allow more money to be spent in pulling down portions of it, and there it stands at the present day. Lastly, before plunging in medias res, we cannot refrain from mention of Maiden's peculiar accident, which for several years incapacitated him from the active pursuit of his calling. This versatile huntsman was in the act of taking a piece of flesh from the boiler, when the fork slipped, and he fell into the boiling broth, so dreadfully scalding his legs and thighs that a long time neces- sarily elapsed Buy Betagan before he was again seen in the saddle. To come to our muttons, it is probable that the majority of hunting men will remember that " Nimrod " in The Chase ^ the Turf, and the Road, states : — "It was due to Mr. Childe, of Kinlet Hall— a sportsman of the highest order and a great per- sonal friend of Mr. Meynell — that hard riding, or we should rather say, quick riding to hounds, which has ever since been practised, was first brought into vogue." This Mr. Childe is said, in short, to have first set the example, quickly followed by the leading characters of the Quorn Hunt, of riding ** straight," Buy Betagan Online as it has now come to be termed, a system which was destined to completely alter the character of the English fox- hunter, changing him from the pig-tailed squire, with his massive horse, into the elegantly appK>inted horseman, mounted upon a trained thoroughbred hunter, ranging in value from five hundred to one thousand guineas. In Leicester- shire, whither he had migrated, Mr. Childe was the first to give the quietus Betagan 0.5 to " creeping," and what became the rule in that crack county soon extended to others. Indeed, it is not too much to say that but for the in- fluence exercised by his example and leadership, the Billesdon Coplow run would never have tempted its chronicler to embark upon the "dangerous ocean of rhyme," or the latter to have found an imitator in Goulburn, who similarly described the fa- mous Epwell run, with Mr. John Corbet's " trojans "—the Strat- ford Hounds — of November 14th, 1807. Mr. Childe was the eldest son of Charles Baldwyn, Esq., of Aqualate, Staflfordshire, by his wife Catherine, daughter and heiress of William Childe, of Kinlet Hall, Shropshire. He was born in 1756, and on the death of his mother in 1770 inherited the Kinlet estates, assuming in con- sequence the surname and arms of Childe. Kinlet is a place of which the owner may well be proud, both on account of its natural beauties and its ancestral associations. The oak W3ods in the park are the finest in Shrop- shire, while there are few parks in England which can be com- pared with it for the size of par- ticular trees or the extent of the woodlands. The house itself is a large, plain, red-brick building, of the date 1727, with stone coigns and facings, erected near the site of an older mansion. his lady's mother having lytlon of Halston. The iowever, was older than egroom, and family tra- cords the fact that it was before the young couple 'ed that they possessed tastes in common. Mr. om being brought up Betagan Eye Drops as squire of the good old- school, was keenly