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With one final extract from a letter bearing the 

 date of "3 St George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, 

 S.W., November 25, 1889," I will conclude a 

 chapter which is, I fear, already too long. Speak- 

 ing of General Peel's boundless store of amusing 

 anecdotes, Sir William remarks : — 



" Well do I remember the dear old General's 

 stories ; and I ought to remember them, for I 

 heard them often, and they were as good the 

 twentieth time of hearing as the first, because of 

 the undisguised enjoyment with which he brought 

 them out. I shall never forget driving down with 

 him and Lord Eglinton to Gorhambury Paces, and 

 to what extent the Colonel's programme (he was 

 then Colonel Peel) was flavoured by Eglinton's 

 faceticB, and by the irrepressible peals of laughter 

 with which we made the lanes of Hertfordshire 

 echo again and again." 



