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rod, and could walk better than he could 

 either shoot or fish. 



Burrell. Indeed I should never have 

 taken his grace to have been much of a 

 pedestrian. 



Rev. J. T. Then you are mistaken. About 

 twenty years ago I durst have matched him 

 against the whole body of the aristocracy, 

 and thrown the House of Commons into the 

 bargain, either for an hour's breathing, or a 

 long day's walk. From Alnwick to Aln- 

 mouth and back is ten miles ; and when 

 Earl Percy, he often performed this distance 

 in two hours, merely as a walk before break- 

 fast. The distance from Alnwick to Keilder 

 Castle, on the western border of Northum- 

 berland, is upwards of forty miles of bad 

 road, and over a hilly country, and he has 

 frequently walked it on the llth of August, 

 with his gun over his shoulder and his shot- 

 belts about him, and reached Keilder before 

 dinner, and started next morning with the 

 lark for the moors. 



