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yours to-night ". It was so dark we never saw his 

 face, and I forget his name. Next morning I sent 

 his horse back and sent him a sov., but he wouldn't 

 take it. Shortly after I was sent to Cahir I began 

 to hunt the i3th Staghounds. 



Lloyd, a subaltern, made the regiment a present 

 of nine couple of foxhounds which he had at his place 

 in Wales. 



A chap named Crow was quartered at Cahir 

 with us. He had a horse that pulled too hard 

 for him. I gave him ^30 for him, and christened 

 him " Scarecrow ". I sold him to Sandy Stewart, 

 Chamfleury, and tossed up whether he should give 

 me ^30 or 60. He won the toss. Some time 

 afterwards out hunting he got a fall and hurt his leg 

 just below the knee. However he mounted again, 

 and rode home eleven miles. A little while after- 

 wards, while undressing, his stocking stuck on his 

 heel. He gave it a jerk and broke the shin bone of 

 his leg just below the knee ! He then was obliged 

 to have it put in a splint, and had to lay up till it was 

 mended. In the meantime he tossed up 60 or 

 ;i2o for his horse, and again won the toss! The 

 horse was afterwards sold at Tattersall's for ^200. 



We had capital fun and hunted all the season. 

 Colonel Laurenson and Harvey whipped-in to me 

 a solitary instance of having a Colonel as a whipper- 

 in. This year was the commencement of the potato 

 famine. The only duty we had was to escort the 

 meal carts from Cahir to Clonmel. There was per- 

 haps a mile and a half of carts with wretched ponies 

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