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reply being : " I am sorry. I have married 

 a wife therefore I cannot come." Lord Guis- 

 borough, should he ever read this causerie, may 

 remember the incident. I believe his comment 

 on receiving the reply was : " I did not know 

 until now that Scott knew his Bible so well." 

 I lay the soothing unction to my mind that I 

 (as everyone did) believed the war would be 

 ended in a matter of days. However, I made 

 up for my want of patriotism by doing some 

 remount work later. 



I have already alluded to the great influence 

 that ladies had in keeping fox - hunting a very 

 live force during the war ; and County Wexford 

 was lucky in having as the wife of the Master, 

 Captain Toby Lakyn, late nth Hussars, a lady 

 who managed to carry on somehow (a wonderful 

 word, that) during the war. Everyone must 

 remember, when the fleet of tanks sailed into 

 action, the famous signal : " England expects 

 every Tank to do its damnedest." Toby Lakyn 

 was a very live member of that fleet, and report 

 has it that he hoisted the signal. Whether that 

 is true or not, I am unable to say. 



County Wexford suffered more than any county 

 in Ireland in losses from "killed" during the war; 

 but they are made of good stuff in that county, 

 and I have often heard the refrain : 



