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charitable and made it a custom to give a five -pound note to 

 any woman in the parish who was about to become a mother ; 

 unfortunately, as so often happens to the charitable, he was 

 imposed upon, but he had an innocent mind, and suspected 

 nothing until he found that one woman had claimed the £5 

 three times in one year. After this discovery he felt vaguely 

 that there might be something wrong, although he was no 

 expert in such matters ; so he sought the advice of a faithful 

 retainer called Sam, who presumably was an expert, as he 

 speedily disillusioned his master by telhng him that he had been 

 imposed upon. 



At Christmas-time in London, notwithstanding the fact that 

 he owned many carriages and horses, he always sallied out in a 

 cab driven by the old cabby that he fed on Sundays, and with 

 him distributed fat turkeys and game among friends who he 

 thought might be glad of them. 



Mr. Burnaby's great-grandfather was a famous whip, and is 

 said to have been the author of the paradox dealing with the 

 rules o^ the road : 



If you go to the left 

 You are sure to go right 

 If you go to the right 

 You go wrong. 



Among parson Burnaby's great friends were the late Dean 

 Hole and the late Lord Vivian, known as " Hook and Eye " 

 because of the affinity between his nose and chin. Lord Vivian 

 was a patron of the turf, and Hke the late Lord Poulett, had a 

 curious dream about a race ; in this case he dreamed that a 

 horse called " Teacher " would win the Citv and Suburban, so 

 he enquired if such a horse was running. There was no entry 

 under that name, but he was told that there was a horse entered 

 that had once been called the " Teacher," and that it had no 

 chance. In spite of that he backed it at long odds, and won a 

 large sum of money. 



Mr. Evelyn Burnaby was married twice : his first wife, whom 

 he married in 1871, was Winifred Crake, a very beautiful 

 woman ; she died at Somerby Hall in 1873 at the age of twenty- 

 two. His second wife was the Hon. Margaret Erskine, daughter 

 of the fourth Lord Erskine. 



In Mr. Burnaby's book of famous trials he tells the curious 



