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and he sliowed me tlie place near tlie end of a rapid pool where he had .saved 

 John'.s life by S"<iffiiig hiiu when he had fallen into the water while; rnnning 

 down Avith a salmon. Duncan added that "he never heard the last of tliis 

 afterwards." * 



Ou another occasion Duncan told me tliat he was going to set a trap for 

 an otter near a pool in which we had seen two salmon with their heads and 

 shoulders bitten off. Next morning I went Avith him to see the trap taken 

 up. and in it we found no salmon, but a big goat caught fast by tlie fore leg I 

 shall not foi-get Duncan's look of con.sternation as he said to me, " "Whatever 

 shall I do ? Here's Faremer Donaldson's preencipal he goat trapi)et by the 

 leg." I said, " Never mind, go and let him out," which he soim (lid. and the 

 goat walked away oidy slightly lame. 



About this time Mr. W. G. Marshall, of Hambleton, 

 Eiitland, used to hunt a good deal with the Bicester and 

 AYarwickshire. He rode very hard, but his horses were not 

 so good as those he afterwards and at present owns. 



One day he got into the canal feeder near Aston-le- 

 Walls. Boxall kept on riding at it, saying, " My little 

 horse will have it," but Mr. Marshall finally gave the lead, 

 and was nearly drowned. He lost his hat and his whip, and 

 had to borrow Sir C. Mordaunt's second horseman's stove- 

 pipe hat to go home in. Next year a lot of people were 

 riding at a brook, some getting in, and some over, when 

 Mr. Spencer Lucy, who was looking on, turned round to 

 Lord Willoughby, and said, " I say, Willoughby, if Walter 

 Marshall was here with that big bay horse that carries his 

 head on one side, he'd be in for one, whoever " 



One da,y Mr. Marshall came down to the Hunt Ball at 

 Stratford-on-Avon. He had been hunting and travelling 

 all day, and was going back to town by the early express ,^ 

 having engaged a fly from Leamington. He promptly 

 went to sleep, and the fly-man ditto, so the horses attempted 

 a short cut home by the Alveston Ford, past Captain 

 Cowan's house. The Avon was in flood, and the first 

 intimation he had of where he was was finding the waters 

 pouring in through both windows. He got out somehow 

 and swam ashore, and there was the fly-man on the top of 

 the cab yelling for help, awake and fairly sobered. Fortu- 

 nately Captain Cowan's coachman had heard the fly go by, 



* .Tolinny Cameron, gliillie on the Camesky heat, told me that the Factor told 

 Duncan that " it was tlie warst day's work he had ever done whativer ! " — W. R. V. 



