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heard him, and, going up, asked him if it were 

 the hunted fox. " Yes, your Grace, and a very 

 black fox, your Grace ! " 



^' Out of compliment to you, Adam," said the 

 Duke. Here Carter came up. " Go to this fox, 

 Carter," said his Grace, '' this is the hunted fox ; 

 Sherwood says it is." After the day^s hunting 

 was over, Adam was very fond of making remarks 

 about it. 



Later on, when George Beers became hunts- 

 man, Adam used rather to tread on his corns, by 

 telling him where he thought he had done wrong. 

 He used very forcible argument, but George was a 

 hard nut to crack. On one such occasion it 

 became evident that Beers's limit of good temper 

 was getting strained ; Adam, perceiving this, in 

 the greatest good humour, said, " Ah, well I I 

 never in my life knew a huntsman who would 

 allow that he was in any fault ; " and there the 

 •conversation changed. 



Adam did not in the least mind talking '' shop," 

 •or taking an order, in the hunting field. He had 

 a wonderful trade, and was fond of telling people 

 how many gentlemen's chimneys he swept. I 

 once asked him which was his largest house. 

 "' Mr. Cavendish's, Thornton Hall," he replied, " it 



has 1 01 chimneys." 



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