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lasting friendship with the dear old man, which never 

 was broken for an hour, and which only grew and 

 increased with time. 



Grand and upright as his figure was in the saddle, 

 cheery and musical as was his voice, dignified as was 

 his manner, he never forgot that he was a servant, and 

 combined dignity with a most respectful deportment. 

 But all this was as nothing to what I found him to be 

 in his private life, and it was after his retirement that 

 I first really began to know George Carter, and to 

 appreciate the society of one, who, while he possessed 

 every kind of knowledge of the noble science, and was 

 never surpassed either as kennel or field huntsman, was 

 utterly without conceit, and remarkable for his quiet, 

 unassuming manner. It was a matter of great con- 

 gratulation to myself that George Carter should have 

 fixed upon Milton as his place of residence, and it was 

 not long after his arrival, and his getting himself settled 

 down in his new quarters, that I paid him the first formal 

 visit ; and, as was very natural, our conversation soon 

 turned upon hounds and hunting. But this was not 

 as I found, " all serene" at starting. The old man — for 

 old he was (seventy-three) — could not quite understand 

 his being " turned out," as he expressed it. And there 

 was naturally some little jealousy at seeing "Jack," 

 who has been his pupil from a boy, usurping the place 



