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ENGLAND S OLDEST HUNT. 



a bachelor's castle — and a castle he made it, too ! He was 

 never fond of women ; he was hardly civil to them even 

 when he spoke at all, till a few months before his death. 

 It is perhaps just as well he never did take to himself a wife. 



INTERIOR OF BOBBIE DAWSON S HOUSE. 



Though he might have derived much comfort from the kindly 

 administrations of a mate, though perhaps he would have 

 had many a lonely hour brightened, the question occurs to 

 me : would he have had the time or the inclination to have 

 divided his attention from hounds and hunting to show that 

 reciprocity of attention and affection to a partner for which 

 she would naturally look ? I doubt not, for Bobbie Dawson 

 was wedded early, and throughout his life he stuck to his 



