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wine occasionally, if we should not be able to go to 

 Italy. 



" Yours truly, 



" C. BRACEBRIDGE. 



" P.S. I to pay taxes and poor rates as if I 

 lived here. My butler could brew for me here in 

 October. 



" I can say nothing of next year. We should 

 leave china, and perhaps you would bring the silver 

 plate." 



My mother and sisters came and lived with me 

 at Atherstone. The i3th Light Dragoons were 

 quartered at Coventry, and Jenyns and Goad lived 

 with me a great part of the season. Jenyns suffered 

 much from asthma, and often sat up all night propped 

 up with pillows, but he always came up to time in 

 the morning. Goad was rather bald on the top of 

 his head, and had his head shaved except a ring just 

 about his ears, so he never could take his hunting 

 cap off during the day. 



I took the hounds which I had in Fife, and the 

 Atherstone Hounds were sold at Tattersall's, and I 

 bought about half of them. George Moore also 

 made me a present of twenty couple from Sir R. 

 Sutton's, many of which were Fife hounds, which 

 he had purchased two years previously when the 

 Fife Hounds were given up and Mr. Whyte-Melville 

 ceased to be master, and John Walker went as hunts- 

 man to Sir Watkin Wynn. 



George Moore wrote : 



