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haunch, had tended to confuse you. Are we to 

 believe, too, that you and your fellows, after drinking- 

 several proper healths (whereof you have no very 

 distinct idea) retired in good order to your respective 

 beds ? Why were you so careful to mention this to 

 your park-keeper when he ran to ask you, *' Have 'ee 

 killed the deer, your honour ? " Why does your park- 

 keeper describe the deer as to an inch fourteen hands 

 high, as if he had measured him, and found such a 

 monster with a haunch weighing but thirty-six pounds? 

 Whence, too, that notion of 500 horse and 1,000 

 foot ? We can, with an effort, believe the seventy 

 miles' run, for we can match it ; but hardly such a 

 gigantic field. Or had J. Rich also been drinking 

 several proper healths in honour of the cocasion ? 



Well, let us leave this glorious day, not unique 

 during the Acland dynasty. The same hospitality 

 continued throughout the days of Sir Thomas, his 

 Honour ; and, indeed, it seems to have been the 

 regular practice for the Master to entertain the whole 

 field, who were in consequence often somewhat tightly 

 packed. Occasionally, at an inn. Sir Thomas himself 

 shared his bed with one of his guests ; and the gentle- 

 man selected for this honour (whereof he was not a 

 little proud) was a Mr. Henry Karslake, who appears, 



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