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beloved master out into the hunting field the pink of perfection ? 

 Poor Robin, there never was a more notable or taking figure when the 

 horn was blown and the pack were passing over " the low country " 

 than the gallant M.F.H. on his favourite grey. Jack Parker — dear 

 old Jack he was to all of us, spite of his faults — loved him, and there 

 was a bond of the warmest friendship existing between them in their 

 long associations with the Sinnington foxhounds. Others loved him 

 as well, and none more so than the respected noble owner of Duncombo 



ROBERT LESLEY. 



Park, and the many friends who were honoured with invitations to the 

 " shootings " over the estates. These are but only the awakening of 

 a few recollections of the deceased ; but they will touch many a sym- 

 pathetic heart who were unable to be present at the funeral ; and even 

 this sympathy will be still more extended when it is known that the 

 beneficent old lady who has the proud satisfaction of calling the deceased 

 " her dear Robert," still survives him at the green old age of 93, and 

 can write to a faithful domestic thanking her for the true service she 

 had rendered her late master. Mr. Lesley always rode excellent cattle. 

 Writing to me from Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Mr. H. W. 

 Lesley says : — 



" My brother took a considerable part in the management of the 



