Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Leighton Court: A Country House Story
A very difficult hunting country. Why, yes. Irish horses strongly in request, not to mention Irish whips and second horsemen. A stone-wall country in part, and in part intersected by deep lanes and high hedges. Not a safe or promising country by any means. Bad accidents were not unknown; one very severe one had but recently happened, just before my tale begins. The first whip, a young Irishman, o'ryan by name, had ridden into one of those deep red lanes, which intersect the new red sand stone hereabouts, and had so injured his spine as to be a cripple probably for life. Sir Charles had pensioned him with a pound a week; and being determined to try an Englishman this time, wrote to a friend in Leicestershire for a first-rate man, fit to succeed old Tom Squire, the wiry terrier-faced ex-poyntz retainer aforesaid, as hunts man, when he should retire to the chimney-comer, and twitter on the legends of the Poyntz family till he twittered no longer.
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