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accents : " It's not your wood, my lord. It belongs to 

 Lord W." (his neighbour) ; " and he shot it last 

 Friday ! " All the keepers and beaters knew this, 

 yet not one had dared to gainsay Achilles in his ire. 



Another host, who combined a highly religious 

 temperament with an uncontrollable temper, on 

 something going wrong with the beat, burst into 

 paroxysms of fury with his keeper, to whom he 

 used most unparliamentary language. A minute or 

 two afterwards, having cooled down again, he called 

 the man up to him, and asked in subdued and 

 penitent accents, " What did I call you just now, 

 Smith ? " ' : Well, sir," Smith replied, not without 

 a tone of pardonable soreness, " you called me a 

 d d infernal fool!" "Did I, Smith, did I really? 

 I'm very sorry. Oh ! to think that one Christian 

 man should use such language as that to another! 

 Heaven forgive me ! But," he shouted in stentorian 

 tones, as his rage suddenly returned, " it's God's 

 truth all the same ! " 



Such incidents don't improve a day's sport, and 



