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to another, with whom he was not on the most intimate 

 terms, and began, in the usual sort of way — 



"I say, Tom " 



" I know you do," was the retort, " and I wish you 

 would not ! " 



But this is by the way. To return to the original 

 subject. 



The " Squire" must have ridden close on twenty-seven 

 stone in his latter years, but, in spite of it, he could gallop 

 at an astonishing pace, especially over rough ground, and, 

 like a good many other welter weights, if their nerve is 

 good enough, was very partial to jumping timber. 



Some years before his death, which occurred in 1873, 

 when felling a tree, he cut his leg severely, and said at the 

 time, " It has killed me," and though it did not do so 

 directly it did indirectly, for it prevented him from taking 

 walking exercise, and so, perhaps, ruined his health. 



There used to be pleasant gatherings in old days at 

 Eadburne, for what was then known as the Derby week. 

 This had nothing to do, as might be supposed, with the 

 famous race, but only with the week when the hounds were 

 kenneled at Kedleston inn, during the first week in each 

 month, to hunt the Derbyshire side. This furnished an 

 occasion for much pleasant hospitality on the part of 

 Derbyshire people towards their Stafibrdshire neighbours, 

 and the following- amongst others were welcome ojuests at 

 Eadburne : — 



Mr. Meynell Ingram, Mr. Hugo Meynell Ingram, 

 Admiral Meynell, William, Lord Bagot, Mr. Hervey 

 Bagot, Mr. William Davenport Bromley, Rev. Reginald 

 Chandos-Pole, Rev. German Buckston, Rev. F. W. Spils- 

 bury, the Cokes of Longford, three of them, Mr. William 

 Clowes, Mr. Bass (Lord Burton), Mr. Charles Colvile,M.P., 

 Mr. Edward Mundy of Shipley, the Wilmots of Chaddes- 

 den, the Mosleys of Rolleston, Sir Seymour Blane and 

 his sons, Sir Henry Every, Lord Chesterfield and an 

 occasional Stanhope, Colonel Gooch, Captain Gooch, Lord 

 Alexander Paget, and Lord Berkeley Paget. 



