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(neither did his master), evidently disliked my fishing 

 there ; and I am told that the bailiff publicly asserted 

 that Lord Arundell had not the right. One day, I 

 was very busy in the water with the point-nets, when it 

 struck me I heard either the roar of an unfelt breeze, or 

 else sometliing like a small sea strayed from the ocean, 

 and. wandering over the lands above me, it sounded 

 presently still more Uke water ; so I stepped on to the 

 bank of the stream, to listen what was the matter. 

 Down came the lake, in what we of the Severn should 

 term " a bore," tearing up the gravel, and knocking 

 about the banks like mad, while I stood laughing at 

 it till it went by. It was a trick of the foolish bailiff, 

 to drown me out ; and knowing that he could not, for 

 the sake of his own fish and stock of water, go on 

 flooding, I sat down till it was over, and then, the 

 water being made thick, and the eels to stir, I had, 

 thanks to the bailiff, better sport than ever. Lord 

 Arundell afterwards sold this farm to Mr. Morrison. 



When I first came into Wiltshire I had a day or 

 two with Mr. Codrington's hounds, in the Great 

 Kidge, and other places. No man knew more of 

 hunting than he did, or how he should and would 

 have done it, had he been anything within a riding 

 weight. People called him slow, and he could not, 

 in his person, w^ell be otherwise ; but Mr. Codrington 

 made his system suit his personal capability, for, 

 if the hounds ran hard, he saw none of the fun. If 

 he had men out with him to whom he wished to 

 show a run, he used to say to the hounds, as they 

 went into cover, "There, go and find your fox; 

 and when you have found him, I hope I shan't see 

 you again for two hours, and then you'll have had 

 a good run, and killed him." I forget his first man's 



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