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succeeded Bob Cowen, and then the Inglewood were 

 broken up^ and Joe was engaged to go under the late 

 Charles Treadwell to the Berwickshire. However, 

 he was taken ill, and never went, and settled near 

 Holm Hill, to hunt stag for Mr. Salkeld, with fif- 

 teen to twenty couple of the Inglewood. For the 

 first year Coweu hunted them, and Joe only rode 

 to save the stag, and then he took the horn, and has 

 never been without it for five- and- twenty sea- 

 sons. 



Lord Galloway did the leading stag business, and like 

 her Majesty^s The Doctor, who always runs to Wind- 

 sor, he might be turned out at Kosley Hill, or Penrith, 

 or Warwick, but go he would to visit the county 

 member at Barrock J^odge. In fact, Joe was kept sa 

 hard at work among the Barrock shrubberies, hour 

 after hour, that his knowledge of plants grew perfectly 

 Paxtonian. His lordship lived a curious life. Once 

 he crossed an arm of the sea, and was never found 

 till they slotted him a week after among some tur-- 

 nips at Burnfoot, and took him finally at Annan. 

 Then Cumlogan wa« mislaid at Lowther for a time^ 

 and when he was brought back he kicked out the 

 side of his car, to Joe's amazement, on Broadfield, 

 and there was another bye day for him. One way or 

 another, they had a deal of sport, and Lord Galloway 

 was still so full of j)luck when Mr. Salkeld gave 

 up and sent him to Baron Eothschild's, that he lay 

 out all night in the South after an excellent run, 

 and, according to Joe's Southern correspondent. 



