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drove her on easy journeys, and bred from her ; one of her 

 foals, by Nutshell, who was by Nutwith, being ridden at the 

 present time by a lady, a very pretty one too, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Plymouth. Jingalina must have been over thirty years 

 old when she died; and oftentimes during Mr. Sleeman's pos- 

 session of her the sum of ;ioo offered for the mare would not 

 tempt him to sell her. " No," he would say ; " she and I have 

 seen so many adventures together, I can't part with Jingalina." 



At the time of the accident a very young lady, the cousin of 

 Mrs. Sleeman, was riding a pony on one side of the groom, while 

 Jingalina disappeared on the other. That lady is now the wife 

 of a clergyman residing just three miles from Folkestone, and 

 from her own lips, in the summer of 1873, imprinted as all the 

 circumstances are, ineffaceably on her memory, I heard Mr. 

 Radcliffe's written account corroborated to the very letter; he 

 having had it " from his dear, staunch, true old friend, Dick 

 Sleeman, a matter-of-fact man, too fearless to prevaricate, too 

 honest to lie." 



Of all sports of the field known to a Breton, that of wolf- 

 hunting is by far the most engrossing ; to St. Prix it was the 

 grand passion of , his life; and, consequently, the preservation of 

 a sufficient stock of game for hunting being ever uppermost in 

 his thoughts, he spared neither expense nor trouble in quietly 

 promoting that object among the landowners he could trust 

 throughout the vast district over which his authority as Louvetier 

 extended. But, owing to the serious depredations so often com- 

 mitted by the wolves, it required no little tact, and sometimes no 

 trifling expenditure, on his part to keep the community in good 

 humour on this point ; nevertheless, having no keepers to deal 

 with, he managed the matter admirably. Among the peasantry 

 not a shadow of suspicion ever crossed their minds that -his 

 hounds were kept for any other purpose than that of destroying 

 the noxious brutes infesting the land; and this impression was 



