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Burton country for some time; but he had a 

 bad fall and was never quite the same after- 

 wards. Still, when he came to me in 1875 he 

 was all right for a couple of years until his last 

 illness. He was buried at Emery Down Church- 

 yard, where his tombstone shows that he was 

 only thirty-eight years of age when he died. 

 Poor fellow, I never liked any hunt servant quite 

 so well as him. 



That same year Mr. Henry Compton of 

 Minstead Manor also died, deeply regretted 

 by everyone who knew him. I think he was 

 about sixty-four, and I never knew a more 

 hospitable friend. 



About the same time died also George Cooper, 

 the Crown Keeper at Bolderwood, a fine old fellow 

 of seventy years of age, who had passed his 

 life in the Forest and was much appreciated. 

 These three sad events were a great blow, and I 

 felt that hunting the country would never be quite 

 the same to me without them. 



In the place of Charley Hawtin I engaged 

 Alfred Mandeville (I forget where he came from), 

 a hard fellow who could stand any amount of 

 work, and with his help we killed forty-seven foxes 

 after a very good season, which ended on the 

 nth April 1878. 



During that winter one of our good days was 



