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Pepper the clock-maker, and pay him the 

 crown I had promised. 



A day or two later I went over to Leighton 

 Buzzard to see my fine fellow again, and to 

 see about getting him away. We had no 

 doubt that he had come into our country from 

 the Duke of Bedford's park at Woburn, and 

 it was my intention to arrange about getting 

 him back there for His Grace. But the fame 

 of the run quickly got spread abroad, and, in 

 the meantime, I had a message from Mrs. 

 Barnett, saying that she had received a letter 

 from the Duchess of Bedford, asking her to see 

 me and enquire if I would present the stag to 

 the Queen (our late beloved Queen Victoria). 

 They counted him as mine, because had I not 

 hunted him, he never would have been taken 

 alive. 



Of course I was delighted to present the 

 white hart to Her Majesty. And so the 

 keepers from the Duke of Bedford's park 

 went over, and they sent him to Windsor. 



That was a run of which any Master 

 might be proud. But I could not get that 



