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him, he did you out of some you ought to have 

 had ; and what is still more, He * larnt' his pupil, 

 old Sam, ye tricJc. Attend to my request ; come 

 and see me when next you come to Scotland, and 

 with my very respectful Compts. to Mrs. H., 

 " Believe me, very truly, yrs., 



*' KlNTORE. 



*'When you have succeeded in my request, if 

 you'll but send Him by the Waggon to the care 

 of a ' cidevanf old Sampson Hanbury, Spital 

 Fields, London, with a note to him to forward him 

 by the Steamer for me, I'll soon have him in my 

 kennel. Excuse this liberty, and double postage. 

 Had I been alive at The Union, I'd have holloa'd 

 out for Fair Play. There are only 16 of us, and 

 I have always lived too much in ye kennel to give 

 myself any bother about it — " 



It will be gathered from the above that Lord 

 Kintore possessed a thorough knowledge of hounds 

 and hunting, and the stamp of hound adapted for 

 general use ; and he was fully aware of the diffi- 

 culties he had to meet in breeding a clever pack, 

 both in appearance and work. Nicol's hounds, 

 which he purchased, were, as he truly observes, 

 Beaufort drafts only, for Mr. Nicol bred very few 

 young hounds himself, generally depending on the 



