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freely spending his own money also. For lie liad 

 kept up entirely at his own cost a good pack 

 of fox-hounds for several years, and had made 

 many excellent gorse covers, well fenced in, on 

 his property in JSTorthumberland ; and he is, 

 beside, hospitable to a degree not often seen 

 in the present day. Few men in the IN'orth 

 will be so missed. His wife too is a most 

 amiable and excellent lady, and her singing 

 delighted her guests. In short, everything at 

 Coldstream (Mr. Eobertson's seat) w^as in 

 keeping. 



A curious incident connected with Mr. 

 Eobertson's pack must be related. After a 

 very good rim, the fox was followed into a 

 large plantation of young firs, evidently beaten, 

 and was viewed by Mr. Smith hardly able to 

 go. At this moment the hounds changed to a 

 fresh fox some distance off. Mr. Smith told 

 Treadwell of this ; but he only shook his head, 

 and cheered the hounds away in the open. A 

 single hound, however, stuck to the scent, and 



