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out," he said, " I feel so tired. And I never used to sit 

 down except at meal times, the livelong day, and did not 

 know what it was to be tired." 



On September 6th the end came, and there was not a 

 soul in the country who did not feel as if he had lost a 

 friend. He was just a year younger than his father, " old 

 Joe," for the latter lived to be fifty-nine. 



It was with a deep sense of sadness that those who 

 had so often followed him in the huntinsf-field in life, 

 trooped slowly after him to his last resting-place, and laid 

 him with his fathers, for it seemed as if with him was 

 buried also all that remained of the old Hoar Cross Hunt. 



It should have been mentioned in 1868 that the 

 Eev. Cave Humphrey came to Cubley in this year, where 

 in 1869 the Rev. Cecil Legard came to help him. He 

 lived in the little red-brick house at Marston-Montgomery, 

 at the corner just opposite the old half-timbered house, 

 with the big yew tree in front of it. The rector is the 

 nephew of the Rev. Cave Humfrey, of Northamptonshire 

 repute, who has been immortalized by Whyte Melville as 

 Parson Dove, in "Market Harborough." The nephew 

 seems to be as fond of hunting as the uncle was, but he 

 never lets it interfere with his duty. He was once riding 

 through his parish with the hounds, when the dissenting 

 minister espied him. " There ! " said he, to an old dame, 

 triumphantly, pointing the finger of scorn at the rector, 

 "there's your parson. Do you suppose he'll ever go to 

 heaven ? " 



" Ay, indeed he will," said the old lady, stoutly ; 

 " bouts and all ! " 



He has walked a couple of puppies for the Meynell for 

 many years, with the worst of luck, for Warrior, entered 

 in 1898, is the only one which has remained in the 

 Meynell kennels. It is more especially to his credit to 

 walk them, for there is nothing he delights in more, as 

 regards his dress, than well-blacked boots, the appearance 

 of which the puppies every morning, as soon as he appears, 

 spoil for the day. 



