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Lord Eglinton second with "Silence". "Silence" 

 had the credit of having killed a fox single-handed. 

 " Woodman " when a puppy was one of six couple 

 that had killed a cub when the body of the pack 

 passed them running another fox. " Woodman " 

 picked up the dead cub and galloped on with it in his 

 mouth. Financially the show was not a success. 

 The expenses were considerable. 



Charles Pattison was at Oxford when I was 

 Master of the Bicester Hounds and had hunted with 

 me. He was a Suffolk man and had settled at 

 Toronto, and had a large farm and bred a lot of 

 horses. He wrote to me saying that he proposed to 

 send some horses for sale in Engrland or Scotland. 

 I replied that I would have nothing to do with 

 money matters, but if he sent them to Edinburgh I 

 would see that they were properly taken care of and 

 sold to the best advantage. I arranged with Mr. 

 Gow, the dealer in Edinburgh, that they should be 

 assigned to him and sold on commission. I then 

 wired to Pattison to send ten. He wired back 

 "Cob, hunters, carriage or cart". I replied, " Hunters, 

 big, strong, good colours". Pattison shipped them 

 in the Phosnician on the i8th September from 

 Montreal. 



I went over to Glasgow to see them on arrival 

 and took Skrimager, the veterinary surgeon, with me. 

 The first horse that was taken out had to be slung as 

 there was not room to g^et the box into the hold. 

 He was a beautiful bay horse. They hoisted him 

 and then let the truckle go with a run, and I thought 



