CHAPTER IX 



HOME DETAILS 



It is hardly necessary for me to explain here that 

 since the Galtee More days I had gone in for 

 ..,„», „ farming on a pretty extensive scale — 



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house and indeed, I have already written some- 



form 



thing to that efiect in an earlier chapter ; 

 but later on I purchased another farm, and built 

 on it the house where I have now made my home, 

 named "Willonyx," after one of the gamest and 

 best horses I ever had, over a distance, and it is 

 here I am living now, and expect to end my days. 

 On this farm there is a large riding school, in 

 which sixteen horses at one time can exercise in 

 the dry. The famous Silbury Hill (the largest 

 artificial mound in Europe) is on my property. 

 It is in the shape of a pudding basin upside down, 

 three quarters of a mile round the bottom, and is 

 surrounded by my water meadows. It belonged 

 to the late Lord Avebury, who purchased it when 

 he was Sir John Lubbock. It is a very historical 



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