COL. ANSTRUTHER THOMSON 195 



John Madocks protested against my hunting the 

 hounds, and sent me the following letter : 



"GLANYWERN, DENBIGH, yd October, 1855. 



" MY DEAR JACK, - 



" I was delighted to see your small hand- 

 writing yesterday outside a letter, as I was anxious 

 to hear how you had been going on. Poor Cross ! 

 I am so sorry for him, and I fear that ' water in the 

 head ' at his time of life is a very bad look-out for 

 him, and that he will never be able to hunt hounds 

 again. You really must not attempt to do the work 

 yourself. Before you married you were at perfect 

 liberty to kill yourself, if it suited your fancy ; but 

 now it is quite different, and / think it very wrong of 

 you even catching hold of them for one day eight 

 days, perfectly shameful. Cutler told me this year 

 in London that unless you had taken the greatest 

 care of yourself and acted up to his orders implicitly 

 that you would not have recovered. One hard day's 

 holloaing might put you all wrong again, and you 

 would probably never recover. Do not think this 

 wigging all bosh, etc. , for I really mean it, and trust 

 you will take my advice, and leave the hunting to T. 

 Powell, who I have no doubt has, what you have 

 not, the constitution of a horse. 



" I have been here and hereabout ever since you 

 last heard from me, with the exception of a week's 

 visit into Yorkshire. I have had capital sport shoot- 

 ing. Sir Robert Vaughan left us this morning. He 

 had a great hunt yesterday and killed 'an old fox sup- 



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