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calling to his daughter he told her to look in 

 his bureau, where he kept his old papers, &c., 

 and see if she could find a hound list of "the 

 Grafton " of such and such a year. The search proved 

 successful, and as the old man was at that time 

 getting blind, he told the girl to hand it to me, as I 

 could see better than he could ; and on lookincr throuo-h 

 the list, sure enough the old man's memory had not 

 deceived him, there stood the name, and the loedigree 

 was correct. 



One "more anecdote as to his retentive powers of 

 memory and I have done. 



It was in the last year of his life when I was on one 

 occasion sitting with my old friend, and the conversa- 

 tion had turned on the present abominable practice of 

 hallooing a fox as soon as one catches eye of him, with- 

 out once considering whether it may be the hunted fox 

 or not. The old man gave his opinion pretty freely 

 respecting this common error, as to its making hounds 

 wild, getting their heads up, or probably indifferent to 

 a timely halloo at the right moment, when it may be 

 really useful to the huntsman ; and then he came out, 

 as he frequently did when some chance observation led 

 up to something of former times, with : " Well, sir, 

 now I remember once being out with Mr. Farquharson — 

 for I liked occasionally to get a day with another pack 



