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was sent for. By the loss of more blood and suitable medicine I was 

 very greatly relieved, and all apprehensions were removed. 



Saturday, 9. — The hounds were to have met at one of their best 

 covers, but were prevented doing so by a heavy fall of snow. 



Sunday, 10. — Inspected the stud, in the stables, the boxes, and pad- 

 docks; and, in the latter, witnessed a sight such as 1 wish I could say 

 was oftener to be witnessed than it is. I saw a lot of old hunters, 

 turned out for the rest of their lives, and enjoying themselves at their 

 ease — one of them a fine grey gelding, which his lordship told me he 

 had ridden fourteen seasons, ** never having turned him out in the sum- 

 mer," he said, " after reading Nimrod's Letters on Condition of Hunters." 

 This, I repeat, is a most gratifying sight, and it ought to be more common 

 than it is, with persons who can afford the expense. It is a mistake to 

 imagine, that our compassion and care are confined to the miseries and 

 wants of our own species ; and it is by such acts as these that the inten- 

 tions of nature are fulfilled, in mitigating the dominion of man over 

 animals which contribute either to his wants or his pleasures. Lord 

 Kelburne told me, he had never sold but one hunter. We had a party 

 at dinner this day, amongst them some officers of the Carabineers, then 

 quartered at Glasgow ; spent a pleasant and jovial evening, which Johnson's 

 Boswell says, is " as much as can be made of life." 



Monday, 11. — The snow was partly gone ; but this not being a hunt- 

 ing day, we rode to Glasgow for the purpose of seeing the manufactory 

 of Mr. Tennant, who had dined at Hawkhead on the preceding day, and 

 is a constant attendant on Lord Kelburne's hounds. But shall I not be 

 considered to be romancing when I describe the extent of the premises, 



