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those arrangements can be made between them- 

 selves. 



" I must have Mawe at work here before I part 

 with Clarke, so as not to interrupt the work of my 

 young hounds." 



In the beginning of November I went to Ather- 

 stone for a few days to make arrangements. There 

 was a hard frost and a fall of snow in the first week 

 in November. 



Lord Curzon agreed to act as field-master in my 

 absence abroad and to take charge of the hounds ; 

 and Dick Alken undertook to provide forage, etc. 

 I went over to Gopsall to say "good-bye, "and Lady 

 Howe said, "Come back in your red coat". 



Before going to Rome I was made a deputy- 

 lieutenant, Admiral Wemyss being then Lord-lieu- 

 tenant for the county of Fife. 



On the 6th November I started from London 

 with my two sisters, Clementina and Jean, a French 

 maid, an Irish valet, an Italian courier named Pe- 

 trolini, and a big dog called "Major". When we 

 got to Florence Petrolini came to me and said, " I 

 find English cutch mail cutch ". I bought the 

 coach for forty " naps," hired four Vetturino horses, 

 and posted all the way to Rome. 



The coach was very useful at Rome. We used 

 to get four hirelings and drive to all the places 

 in the neighbourhood. Martin de Winton-Corry 

 (Spicey Bill) and his wife, and George Holland and 

 his wife (she was sister of Lord Gifford) were gener- 



