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the coachman, " I should so like to train a man there " 

 For him scenery had no other significance than as 

 an adjutant to condition. Jackson was often down 

 at Ury, and they visited the late Lord Panmure at 

 Brechin Castle together. This fidus Achates, Gully, 

 Cribb, The Game Chicken, and Barclay himself in a 

 cock and pinch hat and a yellow handkerchief, as he 

 appeared when walking the match, were the principal 

 adornments of his dining-room ; while little, fighting 

 portraits of minor lights, with shaven heads and 

 broken noses, hung in the porch and hall. Snow- 

 ball, the greyhound of the Wharram Wolds, and his 

 dog Billy were also held in honour; and formed part 

 of his gallery of heroes, human, pastoral, and canine. 



His dress was curious, but still it never concealed 

 the high-bred gentleman of primitive tastes. He 

 had generally a blue or yellow handkerchief round 

 his neck, and a long yellow Cashmere waistcoat. In 

 summer he wore a green coat with velvet collar and 

 big yellow buttons, coarse white worsted stockings, 

 as often as not a patch on his knee, and very wide 

 shoes. The dog-days would bring out a white linen 

 jacket and moleskins, and he had always a little 

 quid of tobacco in his mouth, to which he gave one 

 or two rolls before his long, measured speech began. 



He once kept a pack of foxhounds at Allardyce 

 near Bervie, the estate from which he signed himself 

 <( Barclay Allardyce," and hunted Kincardineshire 

 and the Turriff countries, sometimes riding forty miles 

 from Ury to a meet. Latterly he went to Leamington 



