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Castle. There was a long broad avenue which 

 went down to Dene. As I was moving off with the 

 hounds, Lord Cardigan rode up to me and said, 

 "You have known me many years". "Yes, sir." 

 " I have always been a very healthy man." " Yes, 

 sir." " Just now I got a fit of giddiness. I'm not 

 well ; I'm going home — Good-bye," and he rode 

 away slowly towards Dene. About an hour after- 

 wards, when we were near Dene, he came back with 

 his mackintosh on. I said I was grlad to see him 

 again. He said, " I felt better, so I thought I would 

 come out for a little while ". 



One of his keepers lived in a lodge on the 

 avenue ; his name was Simon Bell. A gun burst in 

 his son's hand and injured his fingers. Lord 

 Cardigan rode out to inquire for the boy, and 

 was found dead on the ground and his horse 

 standing beside him at the gate. I believe that 

 he had fallen off in a fit, and that the first symptom 

 of it was when he told me he was giddy a few days 

 before. 



13th March, 1868. — Prince of Wales at Al- 

 thorpe ; met at Maidwell. The Prince of Wales 

 came down from London to hunt. F'ound at Berry- 

 dale, ran through Maidwell Dales, a ring round by 

 Scotland Wood and Kelmarsh to ground near Maid- 

 well ; did not get him. Found again in Scotland 

 Wood, ran well by Kelmarsh Spinnies up to 

 Clipstone, and killed. On to Langborough, which 

 was blank ; found at Sunderland Wood, passed Blue 

 Covert on our left to Faxton Corner, where we got 



