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with the rest of the congregation^ you like to stop and 

 think over the beautiful words you have heard in the 

 sermon/^ ^' Yes, mum, they was beautiful ; but it isn^t 

 exactly that, neither/' was the reply ; ^^ the real matter is 

 that I've bust my braces, and I'se sitting here to prevent 

 my small-clothes coming down/' 



An incumbency in Lord Yarborough's country followed 

 upon that which had bound Mr. Drake to Cheshire for 

 some years, and then came the offer on the part of his 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Herbert Langham, of the Living of 

 Cottesbrooke. Here, naturally as it were, he fell into 

 the office of Chaplain- General of the Pytchley forces, and 

 has performed for many years the duties attached to that 

 responsible position to the satisfaction of all concerned. 

 For two or three seasons the worthy rector and Mrs. 

 Drake — keen as his reverence in the pursuit of bold 

 rejnard — have been compelled to seek elsewhere that 

 measure of health not to be found in Cottesbrooke' s 

 foggy vale ; and it is to be feared that to the former, at 

 all events, the pleasures of the saddle can only be looked 

 upon amongst the enjoyments of life that have passed 

 away. 



LORD ERSKINE— ME. C. WROUGHTON— MR. F. 

 AND MISS LANGHAM. 



Almost within whisper's reach of the Rector of 1 Cottes- 

 brooke's boundary-fence is the hunting-abode of Lord 

 Erskine, an acquisition to the *^ P.H." which it may well 

 hope not to lose for many a year to come. 



Hard by, in the little village of Creaton, may be found 

 the fine and costly hunting-stud of Mr. C. Wroughtou ; 



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