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then tried to get some one to doctor Willoughby's 

 face. The man at the chemist's shop looked out of 

 the window and thought we were chaffing him, and 

 we had great difficulty in persuading him to come. 

 I saw stars for a little while, but Willoughby was on 

 the sick list for several days. 



One night coming up from Windsor on Watkin 

 Wynne's coach with a team of post-horses I was 

 driving and going about fifteen miles an hour. At 

 the turnpike gate at Brentford there was a waggon 

 between us and the light, and I was close to the gate 

 before I saw it. I said, " Catch hold of the whip, 

 Pat, I can't stop them ! " I reached my right hand 

 down, got a good grip of the reins, and pulled them 

 well together. The leaders half rose at the gate and 

 caught it with their collars, and burst it open. There 

 was no harm done, except our main bar broke, but 

 we had a spare one and were off again in two 

 minutes. 



On 1 6th August I went on leave, and got my 

 troop before I returned. I was at Hounslow the 

 rest of the season and hunted with the Queen's stag- 

 hounds. 



Sir John Halkett was living at Pitfirrane in 1841. 

 The Fife Hounds were at the Green Inn, Kinross. 

 I was staying at Blair Adam, and also Jim Mont- 

 gomery ; John Grant and John Why te- Melville at 

 Broom Hall. I forget where they met, but they ran 

 through Dhu Craigs to Tulliallan. I was riding 

 " Cannibal " and got into a bog, a real bad one, and 

 there was nothing sticking out except his head. 



