48 LIFE OF MYTTON. 



of the servants of the establishment that Mytton 

 ordered her to be put to death, which, as fire-arms 

 were not resorted to, was said to have been a very 

 difficult undertaking. In self-defence she severely 

 wounded one of her assailants. 



The death of the monkey was quite in character 

 with his life — bordering strongly on the ludicrous. 

 Like his master, Jacko was fond of his bottle, and 

 mistaking a jar of Day and Martin's blacking for 

 something of a more vinous quality, he drank so 

 freely of it as to produce an illness which deprived 

 him of his eye-sight, and eventually caused his 

 death. Many of his exploits have been related to 

 me, such as his performance, after hounds, on the 

 horse called " The Devil," but as I have no personal 

 knowledge of them, I am unwilling to give them 

 publicity. They bear too close a resemblance to 

 some old foe-Miller stories of the same amusino 

 animal; as do some similar tales of other " mounts" 

 on " The Devil." 



It was said of Napoleon, that he wished to 

 banish the word ''impossible" from the French 

 Dictionary. Mytton must have had some such 

 desire ; for he once told me, at Halston, that he 

 had a filly in his racing stable which should win 



