CHAPTER I. 



THE PYTCHLEY PICTURE AND DINNER. 



I BOUGHT four black horses — " Sandboy," " Nigger- 

 boy," " Traveller" and " Piccadilly". 



1 6th July. — Went one day to dine at Richmond — 

 Star and Garter — with Frank Grant and John 

 Coupland, M.F.H. Quorn. Mrs. Callender went 

 on the box of my coach. Lord and Lady Crawford 

 were in the gardens, before their marriage. 



14th August. — Started from London on the coach 

 to drive home to Fife. First night stopped at the 

 Peahen Inn at St. Albans ; stopped there Sunday ; on 

 Monday, lunch at Woburn ; slept at Newport- Pagnel ; 

 next day arrived at the cottage at Brixworth ; re- 

 mained there three or four days ; 20th, drove to 

 Rugby ; slept there ; next day put coach on rail 

 down to Kendal and Oxenholme, and drove on to 

 Windermere Hotel, Bowness ; stayed there Sunday ; 

 next day to Coniston ; went to see Furness Abbey ; 

 had lunch at Grassmere, and on to Derwent Water ; 

 to Keswick ; Troutbeck ; Ullswater, lunch ; Penrith. 



We had lovely weather all the time and it was 

 capital fun. but very hard work. We had to pack 

 the coach ourselves as the men had to look after the 

 horses, and in the afternoon we rowed on the lakes. 



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