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been with hounds, and the nature of the country in which he has followed 

 them, he has been particularly lucky in his falls, of which no doubt he 

 has had his share. He never broke more than one bone, and that was 

 in a fall on the road, a very few seasons back, and I will give his account 

 of the accident, and the treatment he received after it. Having pitched on 

 the point of his shoulder, as well as from certain sensations he experienced, 



he apprehended a fracture to have taken place. The country doctor 

 could find none, and the consequence was, twelve days of severe suffering, 

 and as many nights without sleep. " This will not do," said the duke to 

 him. " You must go immediately to Edinburgh and let Listen see you." 

 That skilful surgeon soon detected a fracture close to the shoulder joint, 

 and having reduced it, sent his brother sportsman* home to Dalkeith 

 in his own carriage, quite free from pain. Having said this, it is scarcely 

 necessary to state that Williamson made one of the very numerous party 

 at the dinner given to his skilful surgeon, and brother sportsman, on his 

 quitting Edinburgh for the English metropolis, of whom the following 

 anecdote is told relative to his practice. 



A female patient had the misfortune to lose her nose, and he made 

 her a new one, by the late clever invention of drawing down the skin of 

 the forehead and filling it with some soft substance. " Now is your 

 time," said he, as he was forming it; '*will you have a Roman or a 

 Grecian nose ?" " Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum," — some 

 people, says Martial, are denied this feature altogether; and if its only 

 use was to curl it in scorn or in pride, as he (Martia') implies, its 

 absence might be dispensed with in the human race, however indispensable 

 in the canine. 



* Mr. Listen was for many years a constant attendant on liounds in the neighbour- 

 liood of Edinburgh, particularly on those liuntcd by Williamson. 



