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the Club mull went round with Sir Walter^s own 

 inscription, " May the Foresters never want a friend 

 at a pincli/^ Tom Potts, than whom there was no 

 hunting shepherd of "stronger bone and firmer pith/' 

 always said that Dandie " never hunted with the same 

 glee after he brought the wife hame/^ Still, he kept 

 Nimrod, a cross between a greyhound and a fox- 

 hound, to the last ; and he rose from a sick chamber, 

 mounted " Dimple,^' and, with Nimrod at his heels, 

 obeyed the summons to see a bagman from Dead- 

 water Fell turned out for him at Burnmouth. This 

 was in the year '19, and on the first Sabbath of '20 

 lie died. 



