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"Must I put on all these things?" " Certainly," said 

 the curate. "If my people at Swinbridge saw me 

 with all those things on they would cut out of the 

 church. Well, well, when you are at Rome, you must 

 do as the Romans do!' 



After the wedding I walked down St. James's 

 Street, and saw the Prince of Wales returning in 

 state from a levee. He immediately recognised 

 Russell, and sent an aide-de-camp to bring him into 

 the palace. 



October. Charleton. Having seen Knowles' 

 arrangements at Coulston Bassett for drying stacks 

 with a fanner, I got a fanner from his man at Tithby 

 and arranged the pipes in the stackyard. Put up 

 thirty-five acres of barley and covered it with the 

 rick cloth. Unfortunately a tremendous storm of 

 wind and rain came on and blew down the poles 

 which supported the sheet. The stack was too big 

 and the whole concern heated. We took it down 

 and threshed it. The barley was rather discoloured, 

 but I think it was sold to the distillery at Cameron. 

 All the bottom of the stack was the most beautiful 

 ensilage, but at that time we did not know what 

 ensilage was. 



Season 1 88 1 . A very late harvest. Bob Vincent, 

 first whip ; Harry Shipway, second ; George Kemp, 

 second horseman. 



ist day, 3rd October. Pitscottie ; dry and little 

 scent. Harry was riding " Schreiber ". The horse 

 was looking beautiful. Trotting across a field, all of 

 a sudden he gave a scream and fell down dead. 



