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tenced at the Quarter-Sessions two years 

 before. 



During the years I was in practice, I was 

 generally able to get away for the bi-weekly 

 gallop with the Royal Artillery Draghounds 

 at Woolwich. Handy to town, I could often 

 stay in the Temple until half-past one o'clock, 

 and then be in time for the run at three. 

 What glorious fun we used to have ! It 

 has fallen to my lot to hunt with many 

 packs, and in many countries, but there will 

 be a soft spot in my heart for the memories 

 of the good old Drag until the end of my 

 life. 



On several occasions I had to cut things 

 rather fine in order thus to combine business 

 with pleasure. Once, I remember that, led 

 by Mr. Lumley Smith, Q.C. (now a County 

 Court Judge), I was arguing a case before 

 Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge, until nearly 

 twelve o'clock, at the Royal Courts of Justice, 

 and by dint of cabbing to Cannon Street 

 Station, railing to Blackheath, there changing 

 and canterino; the remain in e^ two miles to 



