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and when at exercise in the field at Harrold, where 

 the rookery on the lime trees is, he would break 

 away from the pack, leap the haha on to the lawn, 

 and go round to the drawing-room window for a bis- 

 cuit or a bason of sopped bread, and then return to 

 me or my men, who, if I was not there, were ordered 

 to let him do so. When Mrs. Berkeley attended, 

 either in the carriage or on horseback, to see the 

 hounds throw off, Harrogate always left the pack to 

 acknowledge her ; and this led, for years after, to a 

 curious circumstance often seen with the Duke of 

 Grafton's hounds. AYhen the meet was at any po- 

 pular spot, and was attended by ladies in carriages, a 

 fine lengthy grey-pied hound, unchided by whipper-in, 

 Avas seen to quit the pack, and gallop up to the car- 

 riage in which he distinguished, at a distance, the 

 female dress. The affectionate old hound used to 

 gallop from the pack with a joyful action, which 

 betok^ed a mind full of hope ; but, alas ! when by 

 circling round the carriage he had ascertained that 

 Mrs. Berkeley was not there, his sullen trot, as he 

 returned, was strangely at variance with his former 

 behaviour. George Carter knew his object, and never 

 interfered with it. I met the Duke of Grafton's 

 hounds in the chase some time after I had parted 

 with mine ; the meeting between me and Harrogate 

 was beautiful, and at the close of the day the old dog 

 singled himself out from the pack to accompany me 

 home ; but, alas ! it could not be. 



