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cutaway and top-boots, and why the Captain never 

 kept his eye off him during dinner, lest he should 

 exceed his three chops and a glass of ale. The poor 

 fellow had a gloomy foreboding that he was being 

 driven to his doom ; and when it proved too true, the 

 Captain had to get into a Dundee smack, and then 

 hide for a time in Forfar shire till the Government 

 tired and dropped the prosecution. Five years before 

 his death, the horn he loved so much ceased to be 

 heard in Stonehaven ; and in the last week of Octo- 

 ber, 1849, when the route was reduced from Aber- 

 deen to Montrose, the Defiance ran its last journey, 

 and bowed its proud head to steam. 



The Captain was, as one of his most intimate 

 friends summed him up, " a great eater, of fine, 

 simple faith, and always in condition." When he 

 first met Hugh Watson it was at a coursing meeting, 

 and seeing that he was a man after his own heart, he 

 asked him, as if it was a highly intellectual treat, 

 " Would you like to see me strip to-night, and feel my 

 muscle ?" He denied no " Pug" in distress, and when 

 he gave his celebrated supper to the "Fancy" at Tom 

 Spring's, there was such a gathering of the clans that 

 the police looked in, and two or three guests were 

 " wanted" in the course of the evening. To this day 

 they speak of him as a departed pillar of the profes- 

 sion. He trained Cribb for his Molyneux engagement 

 on Scultie between Ury and Drumtochty, West from 

 Stonehaven ; and the sight of "lofty Moss Paul" im- 

 pressed him so deeply that he straightway confided to 



