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finish of many a run. A peculiarity possessed by 

 him should not be omitted. It must be confessed 

 that he shares it with his hounds. It is well known 

 that the skin of the dog never gets heated like that of 

 the horse ; through the tongue all exudation of that 

 kind passes off in the dog. A strange peculiarity of 

 the master of the Cashelmore Hounds is, that no 

 drop of moisture ever exuded through the pores of 

 his skin. On the closest day, after the hardest hunt, 

 when others were reeking, the writer has proved by 

 touching evidence that every garment on the master 

 was as dry as if it was held to the fire. That it 

 exudes by the tongue cannot be added, though he 

 certainly always was in that respect what Hector was 

 said to be, " /3o>;i/ ayaOo^,'^ his halloo could be heard 

 far and near, but nature had provided another safety 

 valve. His head and face alone seem affected — they 

 reeked doubly, and when he has taken off his hat, 

 a smoke like that from a small furnace has issued 

 from his head, and his face streaming, but all else 

 dry as possible. Notwithstanding this peculiarity, 

 which physicians would doubtless say was bad and 

 dangerous, he has ever been a perfectly healthy 

 man. Another peculiarity is, that there is a curious 

 indentation in his skull, on the top of the head, rather 

 towards the poll ; any person feeling it would say, 

 that the skull was certainly fractured. One day, when 

 the hounds were drawing for a fox, his horse missed a 

 jump and came down, giving him a "grasser" ugly to 

 look at, but not hurting him in the least. Some 

 of the field ran to him ; and when the master had 

 gathered himself up, a thought struck him — his hat 

 had fallen off, and he placed his hands on the indenta- 



