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first-rate sportsman/^ stood him his first tip of a 

 guinea. 



Earl Moreton of Dalmahoy was also "a good 

 sportsman and rider /^ and Lord Kennedy would 

 '^follow all things, ride occasionally, and catch as 

 many grouse as another man shot, at least so they 

 said when they joked him. ^' Mr. Campbell of 

 Saddell, "so full of his fun," was often one of 

 the field ; and so was Mr. White Melville, " a first- 

 rate man from Fife." Sir David Baird, who once 

 hunted Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, had manj^ a day 

 with the Duke; and Mr. Hay mounted Will in the 

 only season that he ever accompanied Captain Baird 

 to Melton, and saw Tom Sebright and Dick Burton 

 at work. 



About this time he caught a glimpse of " Gen- 

 tleman Shaw." His only comment on him is more 

 curt than scientific — that he "got well into his boots ;" 

 but there is a world of hidden meaning in it. Will 

 Crane of the Fife he considered "a devil to ride and 

 fall ; he'd seen more of the world than all the hunts- 

 men in it." Lord Campbell he never saw but once, 

 when the hounds met at his place near Jedburgh. His 

 lordship came out on to the lawn to see them, 

 and the veterans of the English wool-sack and the 

 Scottish pig-skin shook hands. Mr. Listen " nearly 

 as good a horseman as he was a surgeon," was also 

 seen as much on this side of Edinburgh as he was on 

 the other. Will always says that much of his good 

 health " was owing to having him to look after me," 



