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pocket-handkerchief to assist the sun in drying his hand- 

 some limbs. Without another word, and in no sort of 

 hurry he completed his toilet, and stood up. ' I thought 

 I told you to go away,' he said to the man, while he 

 walked deliberately up to him, and put his clenched fist 

 in his face. 



' Dang it, if thot be it, I'll have ye,' was the response. 

 Down went his cap, off went his jacket and shirt. 



To it they went, and in an instant the straight, quick, 

 lashing blow of Musters sent the boor upon his back. 

 Up he got again, making a very wry face, but apparently 

 nothing daunted, when a left and right dropped him on 

 the grass again. The fellow now sat still, and mur- 

 mured, ' Ye be the best man, zur, I acknowledges.' 



Leaving his opponent on the grass an uglier if not a 

 better man than he was before, the squire turned away 

 quietly, and went to amuse himself with the yeomanry 

 drill. When this happened, he must have been between 

 thirty and forty, and therefore as good a man as ever he 

 was. 



Another remarkable athletic exploit which he per- 

 formed is thus described by the Honourable Grantley 

 Berkeley : — 



' I have been told that he was one day going through 

 Nottingham market, and came suddenly upon some 

 sugar-casks set in a row, into every one of which he 

 jumped in and out, without upsetting a cask, or coming 

 to a mistake of any kind, much to the astonishment of 

 the bystanders, who, from this display of power, were 

 induced to deem the young squire would be a very 

 awkward customer in a quarrel. 



' He was not personally vain — by which I mean he was 

 neither a dandy nor a coxcomb — but, for all that, he 



