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at Althorpe I saw the same keeper eighty years 

 old, a pensioner weeding the paths round the 

 kennels. I said to him, ' You remember Osbaldes- 

 ton, don't you ? ' ' Yes, and every other master since.' 

 ' And whom do you consider the best of them ? ' 

 ' Why, Captain Thomson, to be sure ; there were 

 none of them like him.' ' Why, you have altered 

 your opinion since you heard him blow the whistle in 

 Nobottle Wood.' 'Ah, I recollect, but I did not 

 half know him then.' I agree with the keeper : we 

 shall never look upon his like again." 



