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ville, and every now and then, when speaking on some 

 point in hunting, he would break out with " Shrill horn 

 proclaims his flight," or something of the same kind, 

 and then he would recite some twelve or twenty lines, 

 exquisitely rendered, while his eye would sparkle, and 

 his whole body gradually move in his chair as if he were 

 once more in the saddle, and one felt on listening to him, 

 to apply his own words, " Oh ! it were very beautiful." 

 He may not have had much schooling in his youth, 

 but twelve years with the Duke of Grafton, and twenty - 

 three \^ith the Tedworth, had left their mark, and 

 it was doubtless from the class of men that were the 

 constant guests of his Grace, or the Squire, and with 

 whom the old huntsman was associated, that he took 

 his tone. 



His general habits of life after his retirement were 

 very simple ; he amused himself aboiit home, occasion- 

 ally keeping a few sheep and a cow or two, rarely going 

 further than he could walk, except when he came out 

 " a-hunting," and caring very little for society ; and 

 perhaps his character could hardly have been better 

 told than in his own words, " I don't drink, nor smoke, 

 nor tell lies." Still, he liked to see some of his old 

 friends as they passed his house in going or coming back 

 from hunting ; and I believe he thoroughly appreciated 

 my regular visit of an evening to his fireside. 



