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up in liis seat and exclaiming, " Do yoii think it's safe, Mr. 

 Sheriff?" Mr. Lucy was a first-rate companion, both in 

 the field and at the dinner table. One was never dull in 

 his company, although one could not always remember in 

 the morning the good and very original things he said. 

 He was great at similes. He described to Mr. R. W. 

 Lindsay, of Barford, how he went into the Ratley brook — 

 "As if one was bustin' a paper bag." Another time he 

 said " he went in and shut the door after him." Wlien he 

 wanted to describe anything as being nearly done, he 

 always said, " As near as makes no matter." On one occasion 

 wdien a fox had been run to grouncj, the huntsman said to 

 a man standing near the drain, " Have you got a terrier ?" 

 and he replied, " No, I have not got one." Mr. Lucy then 

 said, " What, haven't you got neer a one ?" The man 

 then replied, " No, I liarn't got neer a one." 



Mr. Lucy's huntsman w^as William Mawe, and his 

 whips were W. Enever, J. Gumming, A. Munns, E. Morris, 

 and Mark Jones, during his two seasons of mastershij). 



It cannot be said that during these two seasons the 

 sport w^as at any time good, and we have therefore but a 

 scanty record of good runs. 



In August I went with my brother for the first time 

 to Scotland, and we were hospitably entertained by 

 Mr. Farquharson, of Invercauld. We arrived on Saturday, 

 and on the following Monday went out grouse shooting. 

 The keeper w^as a remarkably silent man, and we only 

 heard him speak twice all day. On the first occasion I 

 remarked to him that " it was a fine day, with a nice wind 

 for the dogs, and seemed likely to be good for shooting." 

 He answered, " Nae, ye'll do no good, becase yee're 

 cartridges were loaded on the Sawbuth." On the second 

 occasion, when two birds had been killed, and he was not 

 sure whether they had been gathered, he said to the gillie. 



right. He was only taken out of the field this morning." " And do you mean to say 

 that you have put an uubroken horse in my carriage r' " " Sorra a sight of the leather 

 he has seen till to-day, and if he brings your lordship safe to the foot of the hill, the 

 master says he'll buy him." — Leaminjton Courier. 



