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They show that nobleman's readiness of repartee, 

 and good nature, for in those days such mar-plots 

 usually met with severe and summary punishment 

 for spoiling the sport of the " great." 



*' His Grace being fox-hunting, near New- 

 market, a Quaker, at some distance, upon an 

 adjoining eminence, pulled off his hat, and gave 

 a view holla ! — The hounds immediately ran 

 to him, and beins drawn off the scent, were 

 consequently at fault, which so enraged the 

 Duke, that, galloping up to the offender, he 

 asked, in an angry tone, — " Art thou a Quaker ?" 

 "lam, friend," replied broad-brim. — "Well, then," 

 rejoined his Grace, " as you never pull off your hat 

 to a Christian, I will thank you in future not to pay 

 that compliment to a Fox." 



On another occasion, w^hen hunting, the Duke 

 was thrown into a ditch ; at the same time a young 

 curate calling out, " Lie still, your Grace !" leaped 

 over him, and pursued his sport. Such an apparent 

 want of feeling, we might presume, was properly 

 resented : not so ; on being assisted to remount by 

 his attendants, the Duke said, "That young man 

 shall have the first good living that falls to my 

 disposal ; had he stopped to have taken care of me, 

 I never would have patronized him." He was 

 delighted with an ardour similar to his own, or 

 perhaps with a spirit that could not stoop to flatter. 

 His Grace kept his resolution, and gave the young 

 clergyman the first living which became vacant 

 within his patronage. 



