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owner. I may remark, in closing this part of the 

 retrospect, that my pleasant associations with the 

 Downs were seriously interrupted when my son 

 John sustained an accident while out with a shoot- 

 ing party in the neighbourhood of Cottington, which 

 unfortunately eventuated in the amputation of one 

 of his legs. It was a sad affair for him, poor fellow, 

 but the amount of sympathy which was shown to 

 him, his mother, myself, and the whole of the family 

 in respect of it I shall ever hold in grateful remem- 

 brance.' 



