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LEAVES FROM A HUNTING DIARY 



tLially m\ Iriencl sold her for ^60, and he has never had her 

 like again. But, as poor Whyte Melville wrote : 



But 



' ■■'- * ■''■ '-■■ every sportsman, they say, 



In his Hfetime has one that outrivals the rest." 



''Tis passing sad to part, by a sale or a swop, 

 With the clipper that stands in the stall at the top." 



Duchess ' 



I'he above portrait from a })aintini4- hy Frank Baton is a 

 very true likeness of" Duchess," a iL^olden chesnut mare stantlini;- 

 16 hands. How is she bred ? was a question often put to her 

 owner, Mr. (ieor^e Sewell ; but it was a question Mr. Sewell 

 was never able to answer, his father having" purchased her dam 

 (a thoroughbred mare) whc-n in foal. Judging, how^ever, from 

 " Duchess's " appearance, her sire must ha\-e ])v.en as well bred 

 as " Eclipse." 



