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Duncan really meant that it was his manners that 

 had improved. 



Another laughable incident occurred a day or two 

 later, although I don't think Mr. Coupland, the 

 Master of the Ouorn, to whom it happened, would 

 think it so. He was jumping a biggish fence, and his 

 horse hit it rather hard, and, blundering on the other 

 side, looked like falling. It was a 6 to 4 chance 

 about that, and rendered a certainty by Archer 

 jumping clean on to him and sending him sprawling. 

 On someone remonstrating with Fred about jump- 

 ing so close after anyone, he turned round and said : 

 " Why, I gave him at least a length and a half!" 



Archer came to stop with me at Manton on the 

 Saturday after, and, in course of conversation on the 

 Sunday, we found that he had had four days' hunt- 

 ing, five falls, knocked two people over, and was 

 fined £\ and costs for riding on the footpath. I 

 said : "I really must send your adventures and per- 

 formances up to the Pink Uny But he begged me 

 not to, as he did not want his name to appear in 

 print at that time for private reasons. 



On the Monday morning he left Manton to go 

 and hunt with the Ouorn on the Nottingham side, 

 and I was hunting with the Cottesmore nearer home. 

 The next day my wife went to Melton, and, walking 



