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preaching before the Judges, Lush and Piggot, 

 both of whom thanked me for my ' discoose.' 

 I do hke Cornwall and Cornish folk ; but must 

 be back in my old earth by the end of the 

 week. A dav with the Duke will be a real 

 treat to me, when I come up to see you." 



He alludes to the Duke of Beaufort, who, 

 when Russell paid the promised visit to his old 

 friend Davies, residing at Bath, very kindly 

 wrote to say he would send a horse for him 

 every morning to the cover side ; but, alas ! 

 six days of hard-hearted weather forbad it ; 

 frost and snow covered the ground ; ' and 

 Russell, though rising each morn at seven to 

 look at a vane and hope for a thaw, went back 

 growling to bed. So, on that occasion, he never 

 once saw the Duke's hounds. 



In all his letters, terse and brief as they 

 usually are, he displays to a remarkable degree 

 the power of making all who read them feel 

 and comprehend thoroughly what he himself 

 feels and what he would describe — a power said 

 to have been possessed by Nelson beyond any 

 living man of his day. In writing to a young 

 lady, Miss B. F. D., on the 6th of March, 1877, 

 he says: — "Alas! my head and neck are now 

 garnished with all the colours of the rainbow. 

 The good old horse I have so long ridden, 

 while galloping over a grass field, fell on his 

 head, and pitched me I don't know where — but 



