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testify. A wag, for amusement, and to annoy 

 a musical friend that was present, asked the 

 old Huntsman " how he employed Ms time 

 out of the hunting season," — the veteran 

 disdained a reply to a question that showed 

 so little knowledge of the duties and cares 

 of a Huntsman ; and the Querist proceeded 

 with " what think you of musick for an 

 amusement ?" " Musick," contemptuously 

 echoed Luke, " Aye, — fiddling, Mr. Free- 

 man ? " fiddling, — Fiddling, — it's very well 

 for cripples and such like, — poor things !— I 

 always gives them a halfpenny when I sees 

 them at the fairs." 



When I first commenced keeping Fox- 

 hounds, I was particularly fortunate in get- 

 ting some good draughts from Tom Grant, 

 his Grace's Huntsman, at the very time 

 Lord Egremont (as I said before), gave his 

 Hounds to the Duke of Richmond. His 

 Grace possessed an established pack him- 

 self, and the Huntsman being naturally 



