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year sold a hunter, I was reduced at last to my brown 

 cob. Now I have my ride to the meet on him, potter 

 about through the best line o' gates I can find, and enjoy 

 life as much as ever." And indeed I well remember 

 Mr. Carroll's round jolly red face, his short curly flaxen 

 hair, his quiet humour and ready wit. His portrait is to 

 be seen in the picture by Grant of the Royal Hunt, 

 in the left-hand corner of it; he is represented without 

 his hat, on a cob, talking to Sir Seymour Blane and 

 his bosom friend, Johnny Bushe, and looking up to 

 him is Paddy, the fellow who used to run v/ith the 

 pack. 



Some of Carroll's sayings were very smart. On one 

 occasion, when Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence — who was 

 of course a sailor, the son of our sailor king and the 

 famous actress, Mrs. Jordan — was telling the company 

 after dinner that he had had a bad fall over a fence 

 near Hardwick, Carroll said, '' Oh ! it could not have 

 hurt you much, as you are too much of a Tar to care 

 for a pitch!' 



