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quite an oration or rather resume of the year, and concluded 

 with a special eulogium of those who 'have died since our last 

 anniversary.' Not infrequently he killed one or two before 

 their time, perhaps more from a little dry humor than by mis- 

 take; and then he begged their pardon and said, 'it did'nt matter 

 much.' For some time before his death he had suffered slightly 

 from paralysis; but a kick from a pony produced a crisis, and 

 two days after when they went to awake him on the May morn- 

 ing of '54, he was found dead in bed. He lies in the cemetery 

 of Ury, about a mile from his old home the trainer of pugilists 

 with the gentle apolojgist for Quakers and his claim to the 

 earldom of Airth and Monteith seemed to die out with him." 



