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tell you something of him. Whenever the hounds 

 were at Conholt Park about Christmas time, and I 

 were there, his lordship told his man" to take him up 

 to ould Carter, and he used to ask me how the hounds 

 were getting on, and what sport we had had, and he 

 always shook hands with me before leaving, and I 

 know'd he would leave three sovereigns there. And 

 there were many more that I know'd ; but there, they 

 are all gone, and so will poor ould Carter before long." 



" But you have forgotten one other character at least, 

 and that is the late Squire at Tedworth." 



" Oh dear, dear me, and he were an odd man, a very 

 odd man were Mr. Smith ; why, he were unlike any one 

 else, and didn't care what he did or what he said. Why 

 there, he used in frosty weather, when he couldn't go 

 a-hunting, to have down three or four horses to the ride, 

 and he'd make me, or Lees, or some one else, stay there, 

 and he'd gallop round and round, as hard as ever he 

 could and just in the same track, and I don't believe 

 he would have pulled up if any one had been in his 

 way. 'Twere just the same going home from hunting, 

 hard as ever he could gallop, when he didn't have his 

 carriage you know, sir. Why I've been going along quiet 

 with the hounds towards Sidbury Hill, coming back 

 from Everley that way, and I've seen Mr. Smith coming 

 along galloping and waving his hand, and I've said to 



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