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tenced at the Quarter- Sessions two years 

 before. 



During the years I was in practice, I was 

 generally able to get away for the bi-weekly 

 gallop with the Royal Artillery Draghounds 

 at Woolwich. Handy to town, I could often 

 stay in the Temple until half-past one o'clock, 

 and then be in time for the run at three. 

 What glorious fun we used to have ! It 

 has fallen to my lot to hunt with many 

 packs, and in many countries, but there will 

 be a soft spot in my heart for the memories 

 of the good old Drag until the end of my 

 life. 



On several occasions I had to cut thing-s 

 rather fine in order thus to combine business 

 with pleasure. Once, I remember that, led 

 by Mr. Lumley Smith, Q.C. (now a County 

 Court Judge), I was arguing a case before 

 Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge, until nearly 

 twelve o'clock, at the Royal Courts of Justice, 

 and by dint of cabbing to Cannon Street 

 Station, railing to Blackheath, there changing 

 and cantering the remaining two miles to 



