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Randolph said, " I have quarrelled with Worcester 

 already". "What about?" "Breeding hounds." 

 One of the first things he did was to discharge old 

 Tom Morgan and engage Will Dale, who had been 

 with him in the Burton country. In cub-hunting 

 they had run into Hartham, Sir John Poynder's 

 place. Randolph was galloping down a ride blowing 

 his horn, hounds just running into their fox. There 

 was wire-netting six feet high across the ride. Ran- 

 dolph's horse ran bang into it, turned head over heels, 

 and knocked him out of time. Wilkinson picked 

 him up. When he began to come round he said, 

 "Where is the fox?" "All right, they killed him," 

 so they brought the brush to show him. A clergyman 

 came up and proposed to put him in a brougham and 

 take him to the Rectory. He said, " No, no, you 

 will want to read the burial service over me ; I'm not 

 dead yet, I come from Fife!' 



Rosie and Tyvie Burn came soon after us, and 

 Randolph was very good and mounted all of us. I 

 had two capital horses, "The Colonel " and "Swin- 

 don ". Tyvie was riding rather an old stumpy horse, 

 and going through a village he asked a boy if it was 

 the way to Badminton ? "Why, is that 'ere horse going 

 to be killed ?" " No," said Tyvie, "why?" " I thought 

 all the horses that went to Badminton were killed." 



26th November. — Randolph sent us on to 

 Chipping Sodbury, where we changed horses and 

 drove on to see the Duke and Duchess at Stoke 

 Park. The Duke was in Bristol at a meeting. 

 The Duchess kind and charming. She said, "We 



