Related article: and we stay over night at a friend's and set off in the morning. I have been four times out, and have only had one spill, which did not hurt me in the least. I should not follow the chase, but that I enjoy it above all other recrea- tions, and find myself quite fitted for the exercise. The first time I ever rode over a fence gave me confidence from the comparatively easy way in which I kept my seat. Since then I have ridden over pretty nearly every kind of hedge and ditch. Leech is a good rider, and we go together." For the sporting incidents of Millais' younger days, suffice it to say that he was first of all a fisher- man. Even as a mere child he devoted his leisure hours to cap- turing sea - fish at St. Heliers (pike, perch and carp, in the ponds of Roselle Manor), and when he came to London to study, made many excursions with his brother William to the New River, Ser- pentine and Round Pond in search of fish and health. The park waters were then very different to what Betamethasone Nasal Spray they are now, and possessed beautiful sedgy banks, i^dth bays where water-lilies grew. There seems no reason why these natural beauties should not have been preserved, but the modern im- prover has no eye for things Clotrimazole And Betamethasone Cream 1900.] MILLAIS, THE SPORTSMAN. 17 beautiAi], as witoess the gradual canalisation of the Thames at the hands of the Conservators. Very soon Scotland claimed Millais for its own, and after he married, his wife's family living close to the Tay, Perthshire be- came his favourite hunting- ground. Here he made ample return to Leech for his introduc- tion to the hunting-field, initiating the Punch artist into the mysteries of salmon-fishing, deer-stalking, and grouse- Betamethasone Dp shooting. Leech him- self, Betamethasone Acne it is interesting to know, was the original of the great Mr. Briggs, whose adventures, so beautiftiUy and humorously por- trayed in Punch, filled all England with merriment in the early 'fifties. Mr. Briggs I venture to rank among the immortals. Who can forget that famous salmon-fishing expedition when, having been rowed about for some days, a salmon at last hooked itself; Betamethasone Val Cream when Mr. Briggs is landed, and is dragged by the fish over a mile or so of what he describes as "a very difficult country " ? The fish sulks in the Devil's Hole, revives its exhausted strength, makes another dash for liberty, and finally, just as it is about to be gafifed, the line breaks. But nothing daunted, and accoutred as he is, Mr. Briggs plunges in and seizes in his arms a tremen- dous salmon for which he declares he would not take a Betamethasone Cream Uk guinea a pound, ultimately having it set up and placed over the case which contains his late favourite spotted hunter. Mo Briggs goes to sleep on the moor while Betamethasone 0.1 Ointment the deer are bemg driven, and waking in a muddled condition, finds a noble stag calmly watching him, and is too alarmed to shoot. He is Clotrimazole Betamethasone Dipropionate Cream taken out deer-stalking with the keeper, and requested to hold the hind legs of a wounded stag, the said animal being as active as a VOL. Lxxiii. — NO. 479. racehorse, and twice as strong. On his way to the partridge fields he is taken through the park where his host keeps a herd of favourite bison, and timorously asks the keeper whether it is the season when these animals are usually considered dangerous. These, and many more adven- tures, actually happened to Leech himself while on fishing and shooting expeditions with his friend Millais. Perhaps the most amusing Betamethasone 1 Ointment170 of all was at Blair, where in 1855 Leech, who Betamethasone Otc was wandering over the hills, unfor- tunately got into the forest while a deer drive was going on, and, to his dismay, found himself face to face with the Duke of Athol. The Duke waxed exceeding wroth at the sight of the trespasser, and without more ado, gave him what they Clotrimazole And Betamethasone Dipropionate call Betamethasone Nasal Drops in Yorkslyre "a bit of his mind," interlarding his speech with such terrible terms as " Rho- derick Dhu" and "Vile Sasse- nach ! " Leech, needless to say, beat a retreat, only too glad to escape with whole skin. A few months later a clever skit on the incident appeared in Punch. The following year the Duke sent Millais and Leech an invitation to take part in the big deer drives at Blair then going on ; but with that sketch in his mind, and fear- ing that the Clotrimazole And Betamethasone Dipropionate Lotion Duke might have recognised it as connected with himself, Leech could Betamethasone Eye Drops not be pre- vailed upon to go, until Millais dragged him by main force into the coach. The Puke of Athol had, as a matter of fact, seen the sketch in Punch, laughed over it as heartily as anybody, and now very good-naturedly went out of his way to put Leech at Betamethasone Valerate 0.05 his ease and show him the best Clotrimazole And Betamethasone Dipropionate Cream sport he could. But one day, when they were in a butt together, the Duke suddenly presented a pistol at Leech's head, crying out in the- i8 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [Januaky atrical tones: "Now I am Rho- derick Dhu on my native heath, and thou, vile Sassenach ! art in my power.*' ^ The suddenness of the attack so' upset poor Leech's nerves that he let the deer go by without a shot. Eventually, however, he killed two stags bv stalking, the recollection of which was a source of happiness to him for years afterwards. It Betamethasone Gel was during this visit to the Duke's that Leech, overcome by the heat of the Betamethasone Topical Cream day, fell asleep in his shelter just as a herd of splendid stags passed by, which incident, as I have already mentioned, also found a place in Mr. Punch's amusing pages. In 1865 Sir William Harcburt was renting Clotrimazole Betamethasone Dipropionate Cream a shooting near In- verary called Dalhenna, and Millais was Betamethasone Brand Name one of his guests. He writes eloquently to his friends of the hospitality of his host, the excellence of the cooking, and the beauty of the young Duchess of Sutherland, who had been visiting them. The grouse shooting was good. When the rivers were low the friends fished in Loch Fyne for lythe. During these Dalhenna days one of the party, whose name is not given (was it Sir William Harcourt himself ?^ spied a mag- nificent horned beast grazing passively among the hills. In the gloaming it loomed up as a stag of fine proportions. Without pausing to examine it through a glass, he rushed into the house,