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The old Earl could not bear anything like bad 

 language, or to hear any one swear. Jack Lambert, 

 if he got much excited, would at times break out a 

 little, and if he thought the Earl was out of hearing 

 sometimes could anathematise a bit. It happened one 

 day that as I was passing up a riding in a wood called 

 Castle Dykes, alongside of Lambert, he was giving 

 way to a few ebullitions of his feelings in the shape 

 of oaths in fact he was swearing. We passed Lord 

 Lonsdale, who mildly rebuked him in these words, 

 " Oh, Lambert, Lambert, can't you do all that with- 

 out swearing ? " to which Jack Lambert, reverently 

 touching his hat, said, " No, my lord, d d if I 

 can, they do roile me so," meaning, of course, rile 

 me so, or put me out. 



On getting to a corner of the wood where there 

 was a good deal of holloaing and shouting and yell- 

 ing going on, for there were several foxes on foot, 

 Lambert accosted the son of one of my father's 

 tenants named Bland, who was making the most 

 discordant and inhuman noise, which he prided him- 

 self was a view holloa of the first order, " Oh, dear! 

 oh, dear ! whatever are you making that terrible 

 noise about ? Shut your mouth, shut your mouth, or 

 by G I'll ride down your throat ! " And I really 



