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up in the cellar, and there the record remains, 

 it is said, unto this day. 



At his hunting box in Scotland, which he 

 called "The Peat Stack," on all the china, 

 glass, and plate, was a fox's head engraved, 

 with the motto " Floreat Scientia," and he had 

 the same device on his travelling carriage. 



His old servant, John Walker, however, said 

 of his master, that as a huntsman he was better 

 in theory than practice. To hunt the western 

 portion of his country he had a second kennel 

 at Cricklade. 



" Nimrod " (Mr. Apperley) tells a story of 

 his shouting to a countryman on the other side 

 of an impracticable place, "Catch my horse," 

 and then tumbling head over heels into the 

 next field. After a hard day once he came up 

 to an ugly, hog-backed stile on his tired horse, 

 and looking at it said : " Hang the man who 

 put this up, he deserves to have it broken," and 

 forthwith he rode at it and smashed it all to 

 pieces. In a fast run of ten miles from Crab 

 Tree, near High worth, to Ufifington, in which 

 several horses were killed, one or two in 

 the field, his Lordship jumped Sevenhampton 

 Brook,* a feat which " Nimrod " says has 

 never been performed before or since. Captain 

 Robertson was a great friend of his and often 

 stayed with him at Wadley. 



* The River Cole. 



