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hound we've got". "Well, if it wasn't him, it was 

 him," pointing to another. By this time Alec 

 Kinloch had come up, and the master said, " Cap- 

 tain Kinloch knows which it was". Alec named the 

 hound, which was immediately seized, and a pair of 

 couples put on him. All the field were sitting on the 

 other side of the wall. A little feeble voice squeaked 

 out, "I, sir, as one of the committee, object to that 

 hound being hanged ". I ventured to say, " Don't 

 you think if you went on hunting the fox you 

 wouldn't kill any more lambs ? " The master turned 

 upon me and said he was responsible for any damage 

 done, but I was not. I turned round and rode 

 away, and luckily met the Duke of Buccleuch, and 

 asked him to intercede for the hound. The result 

 was that the second whip had a pain in his stomach, 

 and he and the hound were sent home in disgrace. 

 Henry Hope turned his men out in great style with 

 leather breeches. Atkinson was not a dandy. The 

 first day cub-hunting they killed a fox in a ditch at 

 Hopetoun ; Atkinson said, " Now then, Bob, jump 

 in and baptise those breeches ". 



On going into Moir's stables one day I saw two 

 very pretty little brown horses. Johnny Brady said, 

 "Captain, will you buy these two cobs?" "What 

 do you want for them?" "^"200." "Nonsense, 

 I'll give you more than you gave for them." '' What 

 will that be?" ",100." "Make it guineas and 

 you'll get them." So I bought them, took them 

 home, and put the girls on them ("Jasper" and 

 " Jacinth "). 1 sent them with "Iris " to the Islington 



