106 THE POST AND THE PADDOCK. 



country, it was not for the lack of having the best 

 mounts that his lordship's stables at Newton House 

 could afford ; and they not unfrequently went on to 

 stay at Kaby, and look through the racing stables. 

 Even Sam's phlegmatic nature enjoyed these York- 

 shire outings quite as much, in its way, as his 

 brother's more mercurial one ; and it is on record 

 that, though he had no pretensions to a voice, he 

 would be worked up, at long intervals, into taking 

 his pipe out of his mouth, and chaunting right lustily, 

 in honour of The Duke, the chorus of " With my 

 Ballymonoora the hounds of old Raby for me," when 

 it was once fairly set a-going in his little snuggery, 

 or in the chimney-corner of his favourite inn. 



