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Little Phoenix of his lordship^ s hard-riding Leices- 

 tershire days^ as well as the grey half-brothers Re- 

 former and Canteen. Once he whipped in with 

 Joe Hogg, and portraits of Waverley and Ringwood, 

 the hounds of his fancy, form part of his collection 

 at Amisfield. He was also playing in the same cha- 

 racter from ^29 to ■'34, when the Earl kept harriers 

 at Kelso to fill np the two days that the Duke^s did 

 not hunt, and when, with Lord John aiding and 

 abetting, they would " go like the mischief^ with a 

 fox over Cessford Moor. Bob^s picture gallery of 

 man, horse, and hound is a pretty extensive one ; and 

 Mr. Hay of Leatham Grange and Mr. Hunt of 

 Thornington are not forgotten, as men from whom 

 the Earl has bought many a good horse. The stuffed 

 fox^s head has also a peculiar reminiscence. ^^ We 

 killed it/' says Bob, '^ thirty -five miles from this park ^ 

 the very last day that I was a bachelor, '' 



