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the lodge-keeper is to have half the price of the 

 fish for letting me through ! " 



After that transaction Sir Charles greatly 

 assisted the fishmonger. I never heard how the 

 gate-keeper fared. 



Sir Charles Knightley was a great authority 

 on agricultural matters and very successful as 

 a breeder of Shorthorns, besides being a good 

 practical grazier. His foresight regarding agri- 

 cultural depression was only too correct. He 

 made no secret of his predictions. '' Sooner or 

 later it must come ! " he used to say to his 

 tenants. This had such a powerful effect upon 

 one of them, Mr. Jonas Paine, a large grazier, 

 who was wont to appear in the hunting field well 

 dressed and well mounted, that he altered his 

 costume and came out in trousers. I overheard 

 a friend ask him why he had made this change ; 

 his reply was, " Bob Peel has got my breeches 

 and boots ! " 



Sir Charles used to enjoy a chat about old days 

 in the Quorn country, and with Charles King 

 and the Pytchley. I once asked him if he had 

 marked any time in particular when there had 

 been a better scent with a fox than usual. He 

 replied, " I have ; when I was at Melton in the 

 month of March after the ground had been very 



