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his leg, and when he was getting nearly well he 

 managed to break it again. After this second 

 fracture in the same place, nothing that the doctors 

 could do would induce the bone to what is called 

 " knit," and he was doomed to have his thigh 

 incased in a kind of iron cradle, which was at times 

 screwed up very tight to cause a certain amount of 

 inflammation in the thigh bone, and caused him, as 

 he expressed it to me, " the tortures of the d 1." 

 As soon as he was able to sit up a little he began 

 to long for some fresh air, and accordingly he sat 

 up in a bath-chair and was drawn on to the lawn. 

 With returning strength he began to think of 

 horses, dogs, and guns, and being a bit ddsceuvr^ 

 he sent for one of his old tinder boxes, as he 

 called his flint and steel guns, and after having 

 cocked and uncocked it a great many times, he 

 longed to shoot something, and like our clerical 

 friend, he felt sure that the smell of powder would 

 do him good. Accordingly, when an old friend of 

 his and mine called to see him, he found him 

 sitting in his bath-chair one broiling summer's day, 

 with his servant holding an umbrella over his head, 

 shooting butterflies. 



He was quite the best shot I ever saw ; he shot 



