210 FIELD AND FERN. 



pardon, and said, "It didn't matter much" For 

 some time before his death he had suffered slightly 

 from paralysis, but a kick from a pony produced a 

 crisis, and two days after, when they went to awake 

 him on the May morning of '54, he was found dead in 

 bed. He lies in the cemetery of Ury about a mile 

 from his old home the trainer of pugilists with the 

 gentle apologist for the Quakers and his claim to 

 the earldom of Airth and Menteith seemed to die out 

 with him. 



