15 FEBRUARY 1919, Page 16

' BROTHER SOCKDOLLOGER."

[To THE EDITOR or THE SPECTATOR..3 Sis,—In Mc. Sponge's Sporting Tour (1952) Surtees in- troduced his readers to "Mr. Thomas Sloeltdolager, a hard- riding, hard-bitten, hard-holding sort of sportsman," who was Mr. Waffies's predecessor in the mastership of the Laverick Wells Hounds. The name must have been a variant of " Sock-