54 PRIDE. 



there was no further necessity for his 

 remaining at Petworth. The Duke then 

 employed another artist of almost equal 

 celebrity to finish what Seymour had 

 begun, who, soon feeling the inferiority 

 of his own talent, candidly told the 

 Duke that no one could do this but 

 the original artist. Upon this the Duke 

 wrote to Seymour, inviting him to re- 

 sume his professional occupation at Pet- 

 worth. He replied, in a short note, "To 

 prove I am one of your grace's blood 

 I shall not come." 



When I took the dockyard contract, in 

 conjunction with the person I have be- 

 fore spoken of, we thought it best for each 

 to provide his moiety of the number 

 of horses required, as we could not 

 agree with the late contractors about the 

 purchase of their stock ; consequently, I 

 went to the different fairs to buy 

 whatever desirable animals might happen 



