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alted member of the profession had been 

 a great friend to him, and, perhaps, was 

 the cause and the means of his prac- 

 tising in that locality. On our return 

 he asked me to do him a favour, to 

 which I readily assented. I learned 

 that it was to get him a buck, or car- 

 case of venison, from Whittlebury Forest, 

 as he said he wished to make his kind 

 friend and patron a present of a haunch, 

 though I afterwards had reason to believe 

 the whole of it was intended for that 

 great chirurgical professor. 



Accordingly, I deputed my brother 

 whip, who* passed through Stoney Strat- 

 ford, to procure me one from the stew- 

 ward or gamekeeper of the Duke of 

 Grafton, the hereditary ranger of that 

 royal domain. In due time it arrived; 

 and the man, knowing for whom I had 

 bespoke it, demanded immediate pay- 

 ment of the cost viz., 71 10s. With 



