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years his father's whipper-in, being a much lighter 

 weight, was a better horseman than his sire, and must 

 have had a tougher constitution, for he was a hale 

 man to the end of his ninety years' span. Two finer 

 specimens of the stalwart ' statesmen ' of the Cumber- 

 land dales, or two keener lovers of the Chase than father 

 and son, it would have been hard to find. Long may 

 the sport they loved flourish among the Cumbrian 

 fells, and produce an unending succession of such strong, 

 hardy, fearless, open-air-loving Englishmen as the two 

 John Peels ! 



