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forty miles to a meet. He was wont also to go to 

 Leamington, a fashionable English watering place 

 near Warwick, for the hunting season, where he 

 made something of a sensation by appearing at one 

 of the grand balls in his old green coat and black 

 knee-breeches. He was a supporter also of the 

 turf, commonly attending the Epsom Derby. 



One of his friends characterized him as "a great 

 eater, a man of fine, simple faith and always in 

 condition." DIXON says that "when he first met 

 HUGH WATSON at a coursing meeting, and seeing 

 that he was a man after his own heart, asked him, 

 as if it was a highly intellectual treat, 'Would you 

 like to see me strip tonight, and feel my muscle?' " 



DIXON has also left this picture of the redoubt- 

 able Captain: 



"At home his own habits were very quiet and 

 simple. He was always ready with his subscription 

 for any good object, and every Monday twenty or 

 thirty people would be waiting for him about the 

 front door after breakfast for their sixpences, of 

 which he carried a supply in his waistcoat pocket. 

 On New Year's Day he had always his friends 

 to dinner, land he sat obscured to the chin behind 

 the round of beef which two men brought in on a 

 trencher. Mr. KINNEAR was the perpetual Vice, 

 and everybody made a speech. The Captain's was 



