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disposed to set up another pack for himself. The claim being made by 

 his lordship, was of course another damper, causing a diminution of the 

 subscription ; and Crane was told that he could only be allowed one, 

 instead of two whippers-in, and this in a country abounding with all 

 sorts of riot. But Crane was neither to be damped nor foiled. He had 

 become attached to the country, still more so to his employers, and so far 

 from being cast down by adverse circumstances, he doubled his eflforts 

 to overcome them, and he did overcome them at last. But, as a 

 great admirer of his said to me in Scotland, " one of Crane's eyes was 

 worth two of most other men's, any day in the week, in the field ; and 

 his ear was as true as his eye was quick." 



Crane's career in Fife was brilliant, but unfortunately short. It 

 commenced, as I have already said, in 1821, and ended in 1830, when his 

 health became seriously affected ; and during the long frost of that year 

 he died of inflammation of the lungs. But it will be long before his name 

 dies in Fife, or in the other counties in Scotland in which he was known. 

 In fact, sportsmen, and, indeed, many others, appeared me, to retain an 

 unusually pleasing remembrance of " poor Crane," and his memory is 

 cherished to somewhat of an extraordinary extent. His funeral was 

 attended by most of the gentlemen of the hunt, and the principal ones 

 among them were his pall bearers. Thus, reader, may death be seen to 

 confer, as well as level, distinction ; and if it cannot be said of Crane, 

 that he was, like Daniel, favoured of God, he was undoubtedly honoured 

 by men. 



There is one line of Homer admirably translated by Pope : — 



" What honours mortals after death receive, 

 Those unavailing honours we may give." 



