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one : " Dec. 28. — Poor Robin died; from a fall 

 out hunting." Robin was the son of his youngest 

 surviving brother Alfred, a young fellow who 

 inherited much of his father's good looks and 

 athletic gifts, and brother to that Basil Lubbock 

 who went " Round the Horn before the Mast," 

 and wrote so vividly of it on his return. 



